Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied : for the use of colleges and schools (1906)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, Edmund, 1831-1901, Reinold, A. W. (Arnold William), 1843-1921 · New York : Wood · leaf 730
conceived as acting like stretched elastic threads repellingeach other in a direction at right angles to their lengths. An illustrationof this is furnished by suspending two long thin magnetised needles fromthreads at the ends ; when these are brought near each other, with likepoles opposite, the… … ■rJ: •01 5^ Fig. 680 Fig. 68i while fig. 681 represents that due to two similar poles, both figures beingtaken from photographs of actual fields. The expression lines of force or lines of magnetic force is used inmuch the same sense as that in which we speak of rays of light. And justas we might…
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