| Curi0us_George |
12th July 2002 08:34 |
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Originally posted by CyBorg735
for the right hand method imagine your hand is the planet (any planet)
if this confuses you then i don't dare mention the left hand rule that deals with electricty and how future space stations may be powered by dragging a cable and orbiting the earth in a certain direction.
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I completely misunderstood what you were saying at first. I'm sorry. I thought you were saying that by curving your fingers, your thumb would somehow magically point to the magnetic north of Earth.
I see what you are saying now. That's actually useful to know.
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english isn't my strongest area and i may have trouble explaining myself, what i meant was that a compass is of course a magnet, it has a north end and a south end, the north end of a magnet will be attracted to the south end of another magnet, so the north end of your compass will point to the south end of the earths magnetic field.
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Oh, ok. Then we agreed on that point. :) Your wording just confused me a bit. No problems. |
