To find the north side of a magnet without a compass, you can use the floating needle method. Rub a needle on a magnet and place it on a small piece of paper floating in water. The needle will align itself with the Earth's magnetic field, pointing north.
Well there isn't any positive or negative on a magnet. But to find North and South, you can suspend a bar magnet on a string and see which way it points, or use a compass. Remember that the North Magnetic Pole defines what Magnetic North is, and on a compass or a bar magnet the SOUTH magnetic pole point at it.
Yes. That is exactly what a magnetic compass does.a magnet, as in a fridge magnet cannot, but a magnetic compass can. a magnet compass points and directs itself the the north pole, where magnetic fields are located; this is why a magnetic compass can find directs as in NORTH SOUTH EAST OR WEST, it cannot say find it's way from say second street to third street,
The north pole of a magnet is attracted to the Earth's geographical North Pole, and the south pole is attracted to the Earth's geographical South Pole. You can also use a compass to find the north and south poles of a magnet - the needle will align with the north pole of the magnet.
Due to earth's spinning and rotation, it also behave as a magnet. That's why compass (magnetic needles) show directions as alike poles attracts and like repel each otherg
Explorers working on either pole of the earth don't use compasses because they don't work accurately so far north or so far south. The way a compass works is by using a magnet with a "north" pole and a "south" pole. If you've ever held two magnets near each other, you may have noticed that they will either stick together or push apart. That's because of their poles. North and south stick together, but north and north or south and south will not.The earth is like a gigantic magnet. Its north pole is the same as the south pole of a magnet, so on a compass the north arrow points towards the north pole.You could think of it this way: at the north pole and the south pole the compass won't work because the north pole is all one side of a magnet and the south pole is all the other side of it. So when you have a compass at the north pole, it's both attracted and repelled at the same time so it ends up pointing in some random direction or toward the closest piece of metal that a magnet will stick to.Now let's pretend for a moment that you have a really fancy compass that works accurately even at the north pole. If you used the compass to find your way all the way to the very tip of the earth, you would be at the most north point. If you then went true east (east according to a map) then your compass would do something funny. Instead of pointing north, your compass would be pointing west!
A compass has a magnet that points north, according to the Earth's magnetic field. It is useful, precisely, to find out where north is.A compass has a magnet that points north, according to the Earth's magnetic field. It is useful, precisely, to find out where north is.A compass has a magnet that points north, according to the Earth's magnetic field. It is useful, precisely, to find out where north is.A compass has a magnet that points north, according to the Earth's magnetic field. It is useful, precisely, to find out where north is.
Well there isn't any positive or negative on a magnet. But to find North and South, you can suspend a bar magnet on a string and see which way it points, or use a compass. Remember that the North Magnetic Pole defines what Magnetic North is, and on a compass or a bar magnet the SOUTH magnetic pole point at it.
You can find the North Pole of a magnet by using a compass. The end of the magnet that points to the north on the compass is the magnet's North Pole. Alternatively, you can use another magnet to determine the poles - opposite poles will attract each other (North attracts South) while like poles will repel each other (North repels North).
Yes. That is exactly what a magnetic compass does.a magnet, as in a fridge magnet cannot, but a magnetic compass can. a magnet compass points and directs itself the the north pole, where magnetic fields are located; this is why a magnetic compass can find directs as in NORTH SOUTH EAST OR WEST, it cannot say find it's way from say second street to third street,
The north pole of a magnet is attracted to the Earth's geographical North Pole, and the south pole is attracted to the Earth's geographical South Pole. You can also use a compass to find the north and south poles of a magnet - the needle will align with the north pole of the magnet.
Use a compass. It will point to a magnet's south pole.
Bring a compass in the vicinity of your magnet Put it on a float in water
A small magnet that can turn freely is called a compass. Compasses align with the Earth's magnetic field and can be used to find directions such as north, south, east, and west.
A plotting compass is a small magnet which is suspended and is free to rotate. When it is near a magnet, the compass will always point in a particular direction (the north pole's direction) becasue of the force of the magnetic field.
If there is a repulsion between A and N then A is North pole and B is South pole of the horse shoe magnet. If B and N repel each other the B is north and A is south of the horse shoe magnet.
A compass.
They navigated by the North Star.