Magnetism

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written by David Stern

This site presents the basic ideas of magnetism and applies these ideas to the earth's magnetic field. There are several useful diagrams and pictures interspersed throughout this lesson, as well as links to more detailed subjects. This is an introduction to a larger collection on exploring the Earth's magnetosphere. A Spanish translation is available.

http://www.phy6.org/Education/Imagnet.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - Magnetic Fields and Forces - Magnetic Materials General Physics - History	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Curriculum support = Tutorial

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Restriction:: © 1996 David P. Stern
Keywords:: Faraday, Oersted, history of magnetism, magnetism
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created January 8, 2004 by Kara Lehman
Record Updated:: March 22, 2006 by Cathy Ezrailson
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This resource is part of 2 Physics Front Topical Units.

Topic: Magnetism and Magnetic Force
Unit Title: What is Magnetism?

This page gives many descriptions and details of magnetism in the earth.

Links to Units:

Conceptual Physics What is Magnetism? Unit

Topic: Magnetism and Magnetic Force
Unit Title: What Materials are Magnetic?
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