field line


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Synonyms for field line

an imaginary line in a field of force

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New footage put together by an international team led by University of Cambridge researchers shows how entangled magnetic field lines looping from the Sun's surface slip around each other and lead to an eruption 35 times the size of the Earth and an explosive release of magnetic energy into space.
1 At the beginning of the solar cycle, the sun's magnetic field lines run directly from one pole to the other.
The golden rule in reducing the total inductance of the ground path is to decrease the number of field line loops coming from its own current and increase the number of field line loops coming from the signal path current.
The proposed method assumes that the guiding center of the cyclotron orbit of any decay particle trajectory closely follows the magnetic field lines. This condition is met if no electric field is present.
Furthermore, a property of hot, ionized gas is that it can move only along, not perpendicular to, a strong magnetic field--as if the atoms of gas were strung on the magnetic field lines like beads on a wire.
According to Patrick Newell, an auroral researcher at Johns Hopkins University, "When the IMF is southward, the oppositely directed Earth's field and the IMF can locally cancel and break the Earth's field line open.
After hitting Scott Grimes with a pitch, Chris Colaballo crushed a moonshot down the left field line for his 12th home run, giving him 59 RBIs on the season.
Ellsbury's double in the eighth was a high, but not deep, fly ball that landed barely fair near the right field line with Rockies outfielder Brad Hawpe narrowly missing the ball as he tried to make a sliding catch.
Dudley took a 4-1 lead in the top of the second as Stracher stayed hot, stroking a two-run single down the left field line to score Erica Tremblay and Miller.
Sanderski hit a leadoff single down the right field line. An out later, Michael Kirk chopped a ground ball past the shortstop, reaching first and sending Sanderski to second.
The new findings support the notion that each end of a magnetic field line within a galaxy is anchored to a dense gas cloud.
New data from NASA's fleet of five THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) spacecraft shows that, when a magnetic field line in the tail builds up too much energy, it snaps, and part of the line is sent hurtling back toward Earth.
A sacrifice bunt by Brassard moved Magnell to second, and Nick Rocheleau's single down the left field line delivered Magnell and put Leominster on top, 1-0.
Because the end of each magnetic field line tied to the hole whips around faster than the end anchored in the disk, there's tension that slows the black hole's spin and pumps the energy into the inner part of the disk.