Well that could go either way yet! I always thought that the N pole on a magnet really was the North Polarity and that the geographical north pole was actually a South Polarity.
Wiki agrees but what's that worth? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Magnetic_Pole -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Tony Moss Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 2:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: More on Sundial Magnets On 06/01/2011 20:10, R Wall wrote: > Hi all, > > See if you have the correct answer for this: > > The magnetic polarity of the earth's North Pole, is it North or South. > > You can test it with a correctly marked (N,S) bar magnet suspended on > a cotton string. If the South Pole of the bar magnetic faces North, > then the Earth's North Pole has a Magnetic North polarity. If the > North Pole of the bar magnet faces North the the North Pole has a > magnetic South polarity. > > Roderick Wall. > > In response to a similar question to my teacher in geography I was taught at school that every bar magnet has a 'north seeking' pole i/e. magnetically a 'south' pole. Tony Moss --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
