Quiz on Gauss' law for B and Faraday's law: questions 14 to 16

TRUE, FALSE, TRUE
The north-seeking end of a compass needle is attracted to the earth's magnetic pole in the northern hemisphere, and so both cannot be magnetic north poles. The standard convention is that while the earth's magnetic pole in the northern hemisphere (under Greenland) is called a geomagnetic north pole, it is really the same kind of magnetic pole as the SOUTH pole of a bar magnet. This wierd paradox is forced on us by the historical convention that the term north magnetic pole means a NORTH-SEEKING magnetic pole. Thus, magnetic field lines point towards the south pole of a bar magnet, and the earth's magnetic field points towards the earth's northern hemisphere.