Re: CS>Re: Magnets/Help!!!!

1999-12-02 Thread Marshall Dudley
POTTED PLANT wrote: > Marshall Dudley wrote: > > > >We have been though all this before. > > Yep, we've been there', done that. > > > >The magnet may be labeled the north pole, or the > > >north seeking pole, either of which may be labeled north, >but are > > >opposite. > > Not sure what you mean

Re: CS>Re: Magnets/Help!!!!

1999-12-02 Thread POTTED PLANT
Marshall Dudley wrote: > >We have been though all this before. Yep, we've been there', done that. > >The magnet may be labeled the north pole, or the > >north seeking pole, either of which may be labeled north, >but are opposite. Not sure what you mean here, but if you mean the north pole of a

Re: CS>Re: Magnets/Help!!!!

1999-12-02 Thread POTTED PLANT
Hi Jeff and magnetees, When Davis and Rawls check out a magnet, they don't even bother with a compass. They say they hang the magnet on a string and which ever end, side,or face orients itself towards the northern hemisphere is the *south* pole of the magnet. I guess they never played with boats w

Re: CS>Re: Magnets/Help!!!!

1999-12-02 Thread Marshall Dudley
We have been though all this before. The magnet may be labeled the north pole, or the north seeking pole, either of which may be labeled north, but are opposite. To make matters worse some literature considers the true north pole of the earth as a south magnetic pole, so in that case both nort

Re: CS>Re: Magnets/Help!!!!

1999-12-02 Thread Jeffrey A. Madore
This is really very interesting! I tried sleeping with a magnet under my pillow. I woke up with a headache most every time. Maybe I had the wrong pole up! I assume the compass needle end that says north, is magnitized as a south pole? If not, it would not be attracted to north. I have floated a

Re: CS>Re: Magnets/Help!!!!

1999-12-02 Thread POTTED PLANT
Hi Katerina and listees! I'll go with the compass! When I recently bought some more magnets to make a "magnetic pad" I marked each side of each magnet according to the north-seeking end of the compass. I aimed the compass at each magnet and which ever side of the disk magnets attracted the north

CS>Re: Magnets/Help!!!!

1999-11-30 Thread Katarina Wittich
Okay guys, lots of questions. I just got my large magnet for magnetizing water and it's north side is marked differently than the north side on my smaller magnets -- so one of them is wrong. I know this because when I put a compass near the large magnet the needle swings north when faced with the