{"id":206,"date":"2007-04-21T17:38:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/206"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:59:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:59:59","slug":"poles-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/206","title":{"rendered":"Poles apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By convention, the ends of a magnet are labelled North &#038; South to reflect the direction they point when it is freely suspended. The magnetic field of the earth can be likened to a big bar magnet.<\/p>\n<p>Question: Approximately where would the North pole of this magnet be located.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Somewhere in the Antarctic. Yes, it was a trick question! Unlike poles attract; like poles repel; so for the North pole of a compass needle to point North, it must be attracted by a South magnetic pole somewhere on the Arctic ice sheet north of Canada (about 7 degrees away from the True North Pole.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By convention, the ends of a magnet are labelled North &#038; South to reflect the direction they point when it is freely suspended. The magnetic field of the earth can be likened to a big bar magnet. Question: Approximately where would the North pole of this magnet be located. Answer: Somewhere in the Antarctic. Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navigation","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}