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The horizontal component of earth's magnetic field at a place is 13 times the vertical component. Determine the angle of dip at that place.

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Solution

Let the vertical component of magnetic field be BV.
Thus horizontal component of magnetic field BH=13BV
Angle of dip tanδ=BVBH
tanδ=3
δ=60o

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