Physics: Principles and Problems

Chapter 24: Magnetic Fields

Web Links


All You'll Ever Need to Know About...The Right Hand Rule
Check out this full series of animated GIFs and QuickTime videos demonstrating the right-hand rule. Test your knowledge of the right-hand rules by predicting what the animations will show.
( http://physics.syr.edu/courses/video/RightHandRule/index2.html )
How Electric Motors Work
This site is devoted to explaining the inner workings of basic technologies. Explore this web site and determine why motors must have commutators and brushes.
( http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/motor.htm )
How to Use a Compass?
This page, designed by a Norwegian student, describes how to use magnetic north and true north to navigate. What is magnetic declination?
( http://www.learn-orienteering.org/old/ )
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