The Earth's Magnetism
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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At a certain place, the angle of dip is and the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field is The earth's overall magnetic field is

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

The relation between and is ________.


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

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 above the horizontal. The horizontal component of the earth's field is measured to be . At that position a compass points west of the geographic north. Specify the magnitude of the earth's field at that location.

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

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

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

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