WAEC - Physics (2022 - No. 13)
A freely suspended compass needle on the earth's surface settles in a plane called----------
geographic meridian
magnetic meridian
magnetic declination
isoganals
説明
The magnetic meridian is an equivalent imaginary line connecting the magnetic south and north poles and can be taken as the horizontal component of magnetic force lines along the surface of the earth. Therefore, a compass needle will be parallel to the magnetic meridian.