compass and a cork?

ChemMajor · #1 Feb 20, 2009, 10:26 AM

One way to make a compass is to stick a magnetized needle into a piece of cork and float it in a glass bowl full of water. The needle will align itself with the horizontal component of the Earth’s magnetic field. Since the north pole of this compass is attracted northward, will the needle float toward the south side of the bowl? Defend your answer.

Lowtax4eva · Feb 20, 2009, 11:59 AM

magnetism is a force that will attract a north and south pole together

When the needle is magnetised one end is magnetised as north, the other end as south

So how would earth's 2 poles act on this needle?

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Lowtax4eva · Feb 25, 2009, 11:43 AM

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ChemMajor disagrees: I didn't find any information useful from this answer.

Then you havent read the textbook from your course very much



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