[Amps] "Conventional" current flow

Catherine James catherine.james at att.net
Fri Dec 9 21:57:51 EST 2016


Typical example:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/magnetic/imgmag/mearthbar.gif


Cathy

--------------------------------------------
On Fri, 12/9/16, donroden at hiwaay.net <donroden at hiwaay.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Amps] "Conventional" current flow
 To: amps at contesting.com
 Date: Friday, December 9, 2016, 9:07 PM
 
 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".
 >
 >
 _______________________________________________
 > Amps mailing list
 > Amps at contesting.com
 > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps
 
 
 _______________________________________________
 Amps mailing list
 Amps at contesting.com
 http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps
 


More information about the Amps mailing list