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प्रश्न
Answer the following question regarding earth’s magnetism:
Geologists claim that besides the main magnetic N-S poles, there are several local poles on the earth’s surface oriented in different directions. How is such a thing possible at all?
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उत्तर
Yes, there are several local poles on the earth’s surface oriented in different directions. A magnetised mineral deposit is an example of a local N-S pole.
संबंधित प्रश्न
The horizontal component of the earth’s magnetic field at a place is B and angle of dip is 60°. What is the value of vertical component of earth’s magnetic field at equator?
The horizontal component of the earth’s magnetic field at a place is B and angle of dip is 60°. What is the value of vertical component of earth’s magnetic field at equator?
A magnetic needle, free to rotate in a vertical plane, orients itself vertically at a certain place on the Earth. What are the values of (i) Horizontal component of Earth’s magnetic field and (ii) angle of dip at this place?
A conducting rod held horizontally along East- West direction is dropped from rest from a certain height near the Earth’s surface. Why should there be an induced emf across the end of the rod? Draw a plot showing the instantaneous variation of emf as a function of time from the instant it begins to fall.
A compass needle which is allowed to move in a horizontal plane is taken to a geomagnetic pole. It ______.
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Answer the following question regarding earth’s magnetism:
The earth’s field, it is claimed, roughly approximates the field due to a dipole of magnetic moment 8 × 1022 J T−1 located at its centre. Check the order of magnitude of this number in some way.
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Interstellar space has an extremely weak magnetic field of the order of 10–12 T. Can such a weak field be of any significant consequence? Explain.
A long straight horizontal cable carries a current of 2.5 A in the direction 10° south of west to 10° north of east. The magnetic meridian of the place happens to be 10° west of the geographic meridian. The earth’s magnetic field at the location is 0.33 G, and the angle of dip is zero. Locate the line of neutral points (ignore the thickness of the cable)? (At neutral points, magnetic field due to a current-carrying cable is equal and opposite to the horizontal component of earth’s magnetic field.)
Which of the following statements about earth's magnetism is correct?
A long straight horizontal cable carries a current of 2.5 A in the direction 10° south of west to 10° north of east. The magnetic meridian of the place happens to be 10° west of the geographic meridian. The earth’s magnetic field at the location is 0.33 Gauss, and the angle of dip is zero. Locate the line of neutral points. (Ignore the thickness of the cable).
Which of the following is responsible for the earth’s magnetic field?
The small angle between magnetic axis and geographic axis at a place is ______.
At a place of latitude 5°, angle of dip is nearly
The earth's magnetic field at a certain place has a horizontal component 0.3 gauss and the total strength 0.5 gauss. The angle of dip is ______.
The angle between the magnetic meridian and geographical meridian is called ______
Let the magnetic field on earth be modelled by that of a point magnetic dipole at the centre of earth. The angle of dip at a point on the geographical equator ______.
- is always zero.
- can be zero at specific points.
- can be positive or negative.
- is bounded.
