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Q: Can an electric current be used to deflect a compass needle?
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Can a electric current be used to deflect a compass needle?

Yes,


An electric current cannot be used to deflect a compass needle?

Yes, it can.


How do you show that electric current causes magnetism?

Put a wire carrying an electric current near a compass and it causes the needle to deflect.


What kind of test can determine that an electric current is flowing in a straight copper wire is connected to a battery?

A compass needle test will determine whether a current is flowing in the wire.IF the current is flowing the compass needle will deflect from alignment with the wire.


How will you locate a current carrying wire concealed in a wall?

because we take a compass which needle is deflect


True or False an electromagnet is created when electric current flows through a compass needle?

The real question should be how do you get current to flow through a compass needle.


Can a electric current affect a compass?

Yes. An electric current is surrounded by a magnetic field, and this will affect a compass. Please note that this is more noticeable in the case of DC - for AC, the current changes all the time, it changes very quickly, and the AVERAGE value of the magnetic field is zero.


Can an electric current be used to affect a compass needle?

Yes. Any electric current is surrounded by a magnetic field.


Is an electromagnet created when electric current flows through a compass needle?

Yes


Is an electromagnet is created whene electric current flows through a compass needle?

no


How did Oersted discover the relationship between an electricity and magnetism?

He used an electric current to affect the needle of a compass.


When a compass is placed near a conductor where current flows its needle would deflect what does this indicate?

This proves that a magnetic field is developed around the conductor wen current flows through it...