Sentences with phrase «for magnetic north»

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These two numbers are closely linked to a shifting magnetic north, but are essential for airports to direct traffic through all the different runways.

Good for her Actual compasses are pretty good at giving you direction, as long as you realize that the north magnetic pole shifts quite often.

Which could account for our planet's weird history of magnetic field reversals, with north and south poles swapping places.

For example, scientists don't understand why the magnetic field is as strong as it is, or why the field reverses polarity — the North Pole becomes the South Pole and vice versa — every several hundreds of thousands of years, briefly vanishing in between.

For every action, there's a reaction; every positive charge has a negative; every magnetic north pole has a south pole.

As far as we can tell, though, nature only supplies magnetic charges, or poles, in pairs — the inseparable north and south poles of the bar magnets beloved of school science demonstrations, for example.

SOLE POLE Scientists are searching for hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles, which have a single north or south magnetic pole.

6 Reversal of Earth's magnetic field Every few hundred thousand years Earth's magnetic field dwindles almost to nothing for perhaps a century, then gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped.

Biologists Kenneth Lohmann and Larry Boles at the University of North Carolina discovered that the spiny lobster Panulirus argus, an invertebrate not celebrated for brainpower, relies on an internal magnetic compass.

The ribbon center is the direction of «true magnetic north» for the pristine interstellar magnetic field.

For instance electrical and magnetic forces have offsetting contributions; you might have a positive and negative charge or a north pole and south pole and those things tend to cancel out.

This explains why the Vikings could rule the Atlantic Ocean for 300 years and could reach North America without a magnetic compass.

«Early navigators used it to find the magnetic North Pole and birds use it for their navigation.

We LOVE sailing MAGNETIC ISLAND, Far North Queensland, Australia, but happy to also sail to Breakwater Marina, Townsville, Australia for Private Charters & larger group bookings.

Looking over my itinerary I noticed that after landing in Townsville I'd be heading straight for Magnetic Island — why weren't we spending time in Townsville, the biggest city in North Queensland?

When it's time to venture out, there's a range of tours, or it's just minutes walk to the centre of the mall, the Strand beach front, Magnetic Island ferry terminal, the departure terminal for the Great Barrier Reef, the Museum of Tropical North Queensland, Reef HQ, shopping, the pubs, clubs and restaurants.

Magnetic Island is 8 kilometres off the coast of Townsville and is one of the most popular islands in North Queensland including a National Park and bird sanctuary covering half of the island, making it a haven for wildlife enthusiasts.

If you're looking for Magnetic Island accommodation look no further than one of the best kept secrets of Australia's Tropical North!

Over the last 8 years, Tropicana has encouraged a culture of excellence amongst team members and has earned an enviable reputation for quality, consistency and customer satisfaction With 2 State - wide Tourism Awards and 10 North Queensland Tourism Awards, Tropicana uses a small fleet of unique 4x4 stretched Jeeps to showcase Magnetic Island in a very special and totally unique way.

The series» first collector's edition for the North American market is housed in a KINGDOM HEARTS - branded magnetic box.

Jump in Music, Magnetic Shaving Derby), addictive light - based puzzler Prism: Light The Way is now available for iPhone and iPad in North America and Europe.

Developed by Magnetic Realms and published in North America by XSEED Games, Exile's End has entered orbit digitally on PS4 ™ and «PSVita» systems via the PlayStation ® Store in North America for $ 9.99.

Developed by Magnetic Realms and published in North America by XSEED Games, Exile's End is now available on Wii U ™, PlayStation ® 4 and PlayStation ® Vita for USD $ 9.99.

Shirley's work was also featured in group exhibitions including: Chance Ecologies, Queens Museum (2016); The Luminous Surface, Salisbury University, Maryland, USA (2015); Magnetic North: Artists of The Arctic Circle, UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY (2014); Sandnes 2160, Museum of Moving Image, New York (2013); Free City, Public At installation for The Flint Public Art Project, Flint, Michigan (2013); [PAM] Cyland Festival, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2009); Drift, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2008); Video Art in The Age of the Internet, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY (2007); Video As Urban Condition, Museum of Modern Art Linz, Linz, Austria (2007).

Therefore I think the models for the climate prediction we have now are as good as me telling the world that I'm sure by my model it will be 9.3 degrees celcius with 1.2 mm rain and a 4.12 beafort wind coming from 87.6 degrees from magnetic north on 08h23m17s PM at January 6th 2012.

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