The Earth's Magnetism

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The Earth's Magnetism: Overview

This topic briefs on Earth's magnetism. North magnetic pole, south magnetic pole and the giant magnetic dipole are explained in detail.

Important Questions on The Earth's Magnetism

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What is the use of dip circle?

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What is dynamo effect?

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The earth's magnetic field

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At a given place on the Earth, the angle between the Magnetic meridian and the Geographic meridian is called

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The angle between magnetic meridian and geographical meridian is called angle of _____.

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The angle between magnetic meridian and geographical meridian is called angle of _____.

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Magnetic declination is defined as the angle between magnetic north and true north.

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The Earth's magnetic field at a certain place has a horizontal component of 0.3 Gauss and a total strength of 0.5 Gauss. The angle of dip is tan-14n. The value of n is _____.

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The Earth's magnetic field at a certain place has a horizontal component of 0.3 Gauss and a total strength of 0.5 Gauss. Find the vertical component of earth's magnetic field and also find the angle of dip.

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The Earth's magnetic field at a certain place has a horizontal component of 0.3 Gauss and a total strength of 0.5 Gauss. The angle of dip is

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At a certain place, the angle of dip is 60o and the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field BH is 0.8×10-4 T. The earth's overall magnetic field is

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At a certain place, the angle of dip is 30o and the horizontal component of earth's magnetic field is 0.50 oersted. The earth's total magnetic field (in oersted) is

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The relation between Bh, Bv and B is ________.

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The earth's magnetic field

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A place where the vertical components of Earth's magnetic field is zero has the angle of dip equal to

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At a certain location in Africa, the north tip of the magnetic needle of a dip circle placed in the plane of magnetic meridian points 60o above the horizontal. The horizontal component of the earth's field is measured to be 0.16 G. At that position a compass points 12o west of the geographic north. Specify the magnitude of the earth's field at that location.

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Let the magnetic field on earth be modelled by that of a point magnetic dipole at the centre of earth. The angle of dip at a point on the geographical equator is

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At a given place on the Earth, the angle between the Magnetic meridian and the Geographic meridian is called.....

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At a given place on the Earth, the angle between the Magnetic meridian and the Geographic meridian is called.....

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The lines of force due to earth's horizontal magnetic field are