If you are doing a physics problem - what is wrong with this misconception? Why do people think this?
2007-11-11 07:43:34 · 5 answers · asked by boy101 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
becuase up and down is relavent to your perspective, as which way your facing, your position, etc.., while north and south are set directions based of magnetic poles, and global positions.
unless your talking about the polls, the north magnetic pole is actually in the south, while south mag. pole is in the north. this is because of the opposing directiosn of the magnetic fields being atracted, and will always want to point away from similar charges. so teh north point of a compass will point away from the norht magnetic pole so that the neddle will point directly away from it, to the north...
hope it helps..
2007-11-11 07:52:29 · answer #1 · answered by Eadgils 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People in Australia, New Zeeland, and other southern hemisphere countries don't think that way. In fact, in Australia, they often put the Earth's southern hemisphere upward on a globe; which makes the northern hemisphere down.
If you use a globe to represent the Earth, upward towards the sky will be inclined to the north pole if you are in the northern hemisphere. If you are in the southern, upward will be inclined towards the south pole. Thus, up is northward in the northern hemisphere and up is southward in the southern.
2007-11-11 16:04:16 · answer #2 · answered by oldprof 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Northern Hemisphere-centric type thinking!
2007-11-11 15:47:25 · answer #3 · answered by bsxfn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up and down do not exist, they are relative directions. Down being toward the net force of gravity and up being the opposite.
2007-11-11 15:55:49 · answer #4 · answered by michaelb1020 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in Egypt the Nile River flows backwards causing the egyptains to call northern egypt "lower" and southern egypt "upper"
2007-11-11 15:54:54 · answer #5 · answered by Stacey17 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋