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explain the snow rule in easy and elaborated words

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This is not a rule in general rather this is a short cut to find the direction of the deflection of the needle of the magnetic compass needle when kept in some magnetic field produced by some current carrying wire.

S---south (direction of current in the wire)

N---north

O---over (the location of the wire)

W---west (deflection)


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