Question:

Lines of force, due to earth?? horizontal magnetic field, are

Updated On: Sep 5, 2023
  • concentric circles
  • curved lines
  • elliptical
  • parallel & straight
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The lines of force due to earth's horizontal magnetic field are curved lines. The earth's magnetic field is produced as if It had a short bar magnet inside it, with its south pole in the northern hemisphere.
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Some of the properties of the magnetic field lines are:

  • The lines and continuous and outside the magnet, the field lines originate from the North pole and terminate at the South pole
  • They form closed loops traversing inside the magnet. 
  • But here the lines seem to originate from the South pole and terminate at the North pole to form closed loops.
  • More number of close lines indicate a stronger magnetic field
  • The lines do not intersect each other
  • The tangent drawn at the field line gives the direction of the field at that point.