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Subject: Re: Earth's Magnetic Field
Author: "phys-l@lists.nau.edu: Forum for Physics Educators"
<PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU> at Internet
Date: 5/11/99 3:31 PM
At 10:05 AM 5/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
| Mark "north" where the lines of magnetic
| force exit the bar magnet, because this is the convention used in
| physics.
Well this may be a good idea -- and if coupled with the suggestion that we
eliminate "north" and "south" as labels, we might label the poles a E for
"exit" and E for "entrance".