[Amps] "Conventional" current flow

donroden at hiwaay.net donroden at hiwaay.net
Fri Dec 9 21:07:52 EST 2016


Maybe the guy painting the ends of the needles grabbed the wrong color

Don W4DNR



Quoting Catherine James <catherine.james at att.net>:

> Actually, the diagrams I've seen of the earth's magnetic field show  
> the north geographic pole as being near the *South* magnetic pole.
>
> So your compass needle has a north pointing north magnetic pole  
> because the earth's magnetic field is defined as "upside down".
>
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