A Cartacci and S Straulino 2008 Phys. Educ. 43 412 doi:10.1088/0031-9120/43/4/010
Measuring the Earth's magnetic field in a laboratory
A Cartacci and S Straulino
Show affiliationsTwo methods for measuring the Earth's magnetic field are described. In the former, according to Gauss, the Earth's magnetic field is compared with that of a permanent magnet; in the latter, a well-known method, the comparison is made with the magnetic field generated by a current. As all the used instruments are available off the shelf, both methods are cheap. With some attention to the procedure, both methods give accurate results.
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01.50.Pa Laboratory experiments and apparatus
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Instrumentation and measurement
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Issue 4 (July 2008)
Received 8 January 2008, in final form 8 April 2008
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Measuring the Earth's magnetic field in a laboratory
A Cartacci and S Straulino 2008 Phys. Educ. 43 412
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