Sentences with phrase «for magnetic field lines»

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After correcting the logs for errors in location, Gubbins compared the directions of captains» compass needles with the magnetic properties of rocks from the same period, allowing him to construct a time line of movements in the magnetic field.

«We computed the Sun's magnetic environment by tracing millions of magnetic field lines and looking at how neighboring field lines connect and diverge,» said Antonia Savcheva, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and co-author of the paper.

A team of researchers at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research is studying the motion of vortex domain walls — local regions of charge that collectively store information via their configuration — driven by magnetic fields in ferromagnetic nanowires, which are configured in a straight line with an asymmetric Y - like branch.

The researchers say that the destructive radiation could hang about for a long time, spiralling around Earth's magnetic field lines.

In this way, nanoflares may also be the missing link responsible for untangling the chaotic mess of magnetic field lines on the surface of the Sun, explaining why the corona has neat loops and smooth fans of magnetic fields.

The new hooks have a special metal coating that produces a voltage in seawater, and because sharks are highly sensitive to electric fields in the water, the SMART hook (Selective Magnetic and Repellent - Treated Hook), will help keep sharks away from the fishing lines intended for other species of fish.