Sentences with phrase «magnetic poles so»

The researchers implanted arrays of magnetic palladium - cobalt dots on a superconducting film of lead, lining up the dots» magnetic poles so they all pointed the same way, explains team leader and physicist Victor Moshchalkov.

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So if you're standing over the north magnetic pole with a compass, the needle would dip and try to point straight down — hence its other name: the magnetic dip pole.

So the north magnetic pole is where the earth's magnetic field lines pull toward the planet, acting like the south pole of a bar magnet.

The star's magnetic poles switch places every 11 years or so.

The neutron star's magnetic field lines converge at the magnetic poles, so the charges get focussed and a narrow cone of non-thermal radiation is beamed outward.

The polarity of the leading sunspot alternates every solar cycle, so that it will be a north magnetic pole in one solar cycle and a south magnetic pole in the next.

Not only does the Earths magnetic field wander around on time scales of a century or so, but every 100,000 years or so it completely changes direction, with the north (magnetic) pole becoming the south (magnetic) pole.