Then, too, he would often talk to his assistant about the result he was expecting.
For the sake of portability, clocks were gradually reduced in size until they became watches.
The car-lengths, as a freight train stands on its track, correspond to the distance between one steamer-hoist and the next.
The direction of a current can thus be told with the aid of a compass needle.
The electric current to be detected or measured is to pass around the winding of this coil and produce an effect upon a compass needle mounted in its center.
Compass Needle Test] It is not necessary that the magnetic field be created by a permanent magnet.
A, a compass needle, moved about the conductor in the path indicated by the dotted line, will always assume such a position that the north pole points around the conductor in a clockwise direction as you look down on the cardboard.
A short length of circular glass tubing, of inside diameter large enough to contain a compass needle, stands with its axis vertical and has single or multiple loops of wire wound on it in vertical diametral planes.
If the magnet was supported on a pivot, after the manner of a compass needle, it would turn round and take up a position at right angles to the wire carrying the electric current.
We are responsible for the behaviour of the mariner's compass needle.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compass needle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
