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Magnetic Lines of Force
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Imaginary lines so drawn in a region containing a magnetic
field to be everywhere tangent to the magnetic
field intensity
vector if in vacuum or nonmagnetic material, or parallel to the magnetic
induction vector if in a magnetic medium. See electric
lines of force.
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As so defined, these lines of force are merely convenient artifices for
delineating the geometry of a magnetic field. They are given quantitative
significance in magnetic theory by associating one line of force per square
centimeter normal to the force for every oersted of field intensity (in
vacuum), for every gauss of magnetic induction (in magnetic media).
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References
This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
