When the magnetic induction flows through a piece of iron or other magnetizable substance placed near the magnet, a south pole is developed where the flux enters and a north pole where it leaves the substance.
The north-seeking end of a magnet is in English-speaking countries called the north pole and the other end the south pole; in France the names are interchanged.
When a bar of iron is set erect, its lower end is known to be a north pole, and its upper end a south pole, in virtue of the earth's induction.
In magnetising the needle, I have supposed the point to be the last to quit the marked end of the magnet; the point of the needle is a south pole.
The earth, acting as a magnet, is at this moment constraining the two fluids of the poker to separate, making the lower end of the poker a north pole, and the upper end a south pole.
In every case that can be tested, it is found that a north pole repels a north pole, and a south pole repels a south pole; but that a north and a south pole always attract each other.
In fact, the helix will be found to behave in every way as a magnet, with a north pole at one end and a south pole at the other.
Each fragment becomes converted into a perfect magnet; the part which originally had a north pole acquires a south pole at the fractured end, and the part which originally had a south pole, gets a north pole.
When the core gains the interior of the coil it becomes a veritable electromagnet, as found by Arago, having a north pole at one end and a south pole at the other.
Gilbert showed that a north pole always repels another north pole and attracts a south pole, while, on the other hand, a south pole always repels a south pole and attracts a north pole.
The front end of the helix acts, in fact, like the north pole of a magnet, and the further end like the south pole.
If a magnet be placed near the circuit, so that its north pole, N, is opposite that side of the circuit which acts as a south pole, the magnet and the circuit will attract one another.
Everything we had with us had now to be marked with the words "South Pole" and the date, to serve afterwards as souvenirs.
When requested this summer to receive the astronomical observations from Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition, for the purpose of working them out, I at once put myself in communication with Mr. A.
I had brought with me an old briar pipe, which bore inscriptions from many places in the Arctic regions, and now I wanted it marked "South Pole.
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