what would happen if i took a compass to the very tip of the north poll?

Answer 1

Good question.

You have a choice of which north pole you want to go to tho'

North Pole may refer to:


Terrestrial and celestial North Poles:
1. North Pole (also known as the "Geographic North Pole") – the northernmost point on Earth.

2. North Magnetic Pole – the shifting point on the Earth's surface where the Earth's magnetic field points directly downwards.

3. North Geomagnetic Pole – the point of intersection of the Earth's surface with the axis of a simple magnetic dipole (like a bar magnet) that best approximates the Earth's actual more complex magnetic field.


4. Northern Pole of Inaccessibility – the point in the Arctic Ocean farthest from land.


5. North Celestial Pole – an imaginary point in the northern sky towards which the Earth's axis of rotation points.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole_%28disambiguation%29

Answer 2

A poll is like a survey - asking a bunch of people what they think about something. I didn't think they had specific surveys based on directions like North or South.

Oh, you meant the north POLE.

If you took a compass to the exact north magnetic pole, it would probably just spin around and not point in any direction.
But if you took the compass to the north axial pole (the point the earth rotates on), then the compass would point to the north magnetic pole (the 2 poles are not in the same place, the north magnetic pole is south of the axial pole, towards Siberia).

Answer 3

It would point to Magnetic north.. A compass does not point to the north pole. It always points to magnetic north.
If you were exactly at magnetic north it may spin. More than likely due to the shift in magnetic north the compass needle would flutter not spin.
If you look at a map you will see there are two compas points pointing north ... One magnetic and one true north. True north is the north pole. Yo have to use the deviations carefully to navigate on a map.

Answer 4

If you took a compass to the exact north Magnetic North Pole, it would just spin around in circles.

Answer 5

The magnet earth at magnetic pole point's south to the south pole at almost all point's above the circle, there are many deviation's from this, but the actual fact is magnetic polarity is just energy, and the whole energy cycle of the spinning rock around the sun make's a tiny polarized negative point to the strongest positve magnetic mass, which is south, and that is anywhere north of the arctic circle, by the core of the mass being near resolute is. 400 mile's underneath, then the convergeing mass's of energy from the drag of earth spinning create's the only solution to magnetism. Mass equal's energy

Answer 6

hi there!!! i agree with lindajune answer. to add to it i don't think that the compass would "spin" as some would think. i suspect that it would act like just a ordinary piece of balanced material suspended at a point. since there would not be a magnetic attraction as in theory you would be standing on the magnetic pole. Well that is in theory.....but in practical terms i don't thing you would even get to that point since it is not a " spot" on the earth surface.
In practise u would get local magnetic field making th compass move in an erratic way.

well if you plan to visit the pole look out for polar bears... they do like to see curious minds

Answer 7

It would spin. Magnetic field would point in every direction equally if you found the true north pole where the magnetic field comes out of the earth.

Answer 8

The 'N' of the compass would just point straight to the ground.

Answer 9

Unless you were at the magnetic pole it would still point "North".

Answer 10

It would spin because the magnetic field is every where
I am not sure so don't go completely on me