Sentences with phrase «where magnetic north»

If you have no idea where magnetic north is nor the timing and amplitude of its motion, the compass is not going to tell you anything useful.

Bird Compasses March 11, 2015 Birds have an amazing, innate ability to sense where magnetic north lies, and scientists think they're closer than ever to understanding the secrets of their natural compass.

The world has its mysteries, and one of them is that dogs seem to know where magnetic north is, as shown by their orientation when they relieve themselves.

Not exact matches

But magnetic north doesn't line up perfectly with true north, the point where the Earth's axis hits the surface (and above which the North Star snorth doesn't line up perfectly with true north, the point where the Earth's axis hits the surface (and above which the North Star snorth, the point where the Earth's axis hits the surface (and above which the North Star sNorth Star sits).

In this case, the location of this magnetic anomaly would then mark the initial location where North America split from the rest of Pangea as that ancient supercontinent broke apart.

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.

In the honeycomb pattern, where three magnetic poles intersect, a net charge of north or south is forced at each vertex.

Therefore, the spacecraft is moving through a special region of space where magnetic fields are rotated away from true magnetic north.

Earth has its own magnetic field, which is why we can always use a compass to find the north pole no matter where we are.

- Where the North magnetic pole was being «pushed on» becomes «pulled on» - Where the South magnetic pole was being «pulled on», becomes «pushed on» The Earth's magnetic and gravitational field around the equator changes very much seasonally, due to constant rotation and equally distributed exposure to the Sun's E / M field.