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Leaving Cert Physics: Magnets and Magnetic Fields

Introduction to terrestrial magnetism
Google video - 1:30
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Introduction to the Northern Lights
Google video - 1:00
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Magnetic Field Lines
Magnetic Field Patterns for a straight conductor, a coil and a loop. Click on Next each time
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Magnetic Field of a bar magnet. Drag and click the pointer
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Magnetic Field of a straight conductor, with moving electrons visible in the conductor
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Magnetic fields associated with two magnets. You can change orientation of both magnets.
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Click on the 'Bar Magnet' tab.
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Magnetic field due to a solenoid link    
       
Nice video on how magnetism guides animal migration Link Video from howstuffworks. 3 mins 4 Star
Every few hundred thousand years the direction of the Earth's magnetic field reveerses. Link Video from howstuffworks. 3 min 4 Star
The mythical powers of lodestone Link Video from howstuffworks. 3 min 4 Star
       
Make your own 3-D magnetic field.
From youtube. 5 minutes
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Want to see a levitating frog?
Because Science has never persued a more noble cause. From YouTube. 10 seconds
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Or water being affected by a magnet?
Why not try it out in the classroom. you will need neodynium magnets. From YouTube. 40 seconds
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