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Grade 12General Physics

If you made a map of magnetic field lines at Melbourne in Australia, would the lines seem to go into the ground or come out of the ground?

Profile image of Shwetabh
12 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Saurabh Koranglekar
6 Years ago
Dear student

As Melbourne is situated in southern hemisphere where north pole of earth's magnetic field lies therefore magnetic lines of force seem to come out of the ground.

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