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magnetic field

noun as in magnetic field of currents

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Because they are not deflected by magnetic fields, gamma rays point back to their sources, revealing the whereabouts of the itinerant cosmic rays.

Armed with magnetometers for measuring magnetic fields, researchers also mapped out the magnetic orientation of seafloor rocks — how their iron-bearing minerals are oriented relative to Earth’s field.

Cosmologists have no end of ideas, but one overlooked option is the possible existence of magnetic fields at the birth of the universe.

When he then induced an artificial magnetic field around the tanks, the turtles continued in what they thought was a northeasterly direction.

The combination of intense magnetic fields and hot gasses boiling up from below the surface creates the streaky appearance in the image, as hot and cool gas spiders out from the darker center, said the NSO in a press release.

That shows the magnetic field at work protecting us from these highly energetic particles.

While every neutron star has an intense magnetic field, the ones known as magnetars are exceptional.

The pulses are from a beam of light produced by the intense magnetic field, which sweeps across Earth as the neutron star rotates.

During that passage, the intense magnetic field twisted the light.

Magnetic-field exposure is typically associated with microwave ovens, power lines, vacuum cleaners, and hair dryers.

This magnetic field can be increased in value, without increasing the current in the conductor, by adding more turns to the coil.

The current produced by the induced electrical pressure aids the current in the winding of coil A in producing a magnetic field.

The strength of a magnetic field due to a current in a conductor can be greatly increased by forming a coil of the conductor.

A magnetic field may be produced through a coil of wire by winding it on the magnetic circuit shown in Fig. 8.

This simple experiment proved to Oersted that there was a magnetic field produced by the current in the conductor.

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