What's the tilt in degrees of the worlds axis and also how many degrees is magnetic north from true north?
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The Earth's axial tilt varies between 21.5° and 24.5° with a 41,000 year periodicity (currently decreasing: 24.049 in 3300 BC, 23.443 in 1973, 23.439 in 2000), while the direction of the tilt gradually undergoes precession, moving in a slow circle over a period of about 25,800 years. However, other factors may change the axial tilt of Earth.
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Whe teaching basic navigation we cover the difference between magnetci and grid north.  Previous answer here is good.  But I would like to add the ditty we use to remind people to apply the variation figure when moving from the map to compass and vice versa.\n\nwhen taking bearing from the map and putting onto the compass add the variation (From grid to mag ADD)\n\nWhen applying a compass bearing to the map then take the variation off. (From mag to grid get rid).\n\nAlso the amounbt of variation and its direction will vary depending on where you are on the earth.. In the UK the magnetic variation is about 6 degrees West.\n\nWe use the ditty "Variation East Compass Least (ie take the figure off the magnetic reading)- Variation West Compass Best." (ie add it to the magnetic reading.)
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The earth has two magnetic poles, a north pole and a south pole.\n\nThe effect of both poles can be detected by a good compass from anywhere on earth.
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It depends on the type of compass.  If it relies on satellite technology then there's no difference.  If it's a traditional needle type magnetic compass then the principle is still exactly the same in that the needle will point to the magnetic north pole it's just that the relative direction of travel will be different in the US to in Egypt.\n\nThe magnetic north pole is in Canada (just north of Hudson Bay) so from the US you'd effectively be walking upwards whereas setting off from Egypt you'd be walking on something of a diagonal course.  Bear in mind that these directions are relative to one another because in reality wherever you set off from you'd be heading north (assuming of course that you followed the direction of the needle).\n\nAlyssa's answer is wrong.  Imagine you're on the equator and set off walking east (sailing on the wet bits) and kept heading east for a very long time, you'd eventually come back to where you started - there wouldn't be a point where east suddenly became west or vice versa.\n\nOne thing that would differ is magnetic deviation (also known as magnetic declination) - this is the angle between magnetic north and true north.  There's about 1000 miles difference between the locations of the true north pole and the magnetic north pole so your position on earth would affect the angle of magnetic deviation.\n\nThe principle of using a compass will be exactly the same in Egypt as in the US.  The only thing that varies is magnetic deviation - which in itself varies because magnetic north isn't a fixed point.
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The Earth rotates 360 degrees (2 pi radians) in 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.09054 seconds.  In other words, its angular velocity is (2 pi)/(86,164.09054 sec).  You could google the answer this one, since the Earth's angular velocity is a well known constant (7.292115 x 10^-5 rad/sec).\n\nThe equatorial radius is 6,378.137 km.  Your distance from the Earth's rotational pole can be found by multiplying the equatorial radius by the cosine of your latitude.  For example, if you're located at 38 degrees N latitude, your distance from the rotational axis is 6,091.59 km.\n\nYour linear speed is found by multiplying your distance from the Earth's rotational axis by the angular velocity.  For example, at 38 deg N latitude, your velocity would be 444.2 meters/sec.\n\nYou have to know the latitude a person is located at in order to calculate their velocity.  You can find the approximate latitude on any globe.  An online map or a Gazeteer could give you more exact coordinates.  Googling the coordinates for the local airport would also get you a very accurate latitude for your city.
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One place it is not located at is the "magnetic North pole" which is where a magnetic compass points to. The compass reading could be as much as 15 degrees different from the direction to the "true" North pole you seem to be referring to depending on where in the US or world you are. It would seem logical that the "true" North pole is located where all the lines of longitude come together at the top of a globe. The lines of latitude are parallel to the earth's equator. The earth's axis that passes through the true South to true North poles is known to "precess" slowly over about a 25,000 year period, I believe, meaning that our planet's axis is slowly wobbling over that period of time as the earth rotates around it.
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The north pole is +90 degrees, or 90 degrees north; south pole is -90 degrees, or 90 degrees south.
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The directional North pole of the earth is a magnetic south pole, this is because the north end of a compass points north, and opposites attract, therefore north is...south.\n\nMagnetic lines go from south to north i think, sorry havn't taken electricity/mag class in so long...\n\nanyways, if my thining is correct than it would point towards the directional south\n\ni'd choose "down"
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Earth's orbiting around the sun & Earth's 23.5 degree tilt of axis.\n\nOn earth's orbit around the sun, there are 4 points of position that we refer to as either equinoxes(2) or solstices(2).\n\nTo begin with, a solstice is the time when on Earth the sun is either at it's lowest (winter) or highest (summer) point in the sky. An equinox is when all places on the planet experiences equal amounts of light & darkness.\n\nFor the Northern Hemisphere:\n\nWhen the Northern axis is tilted toward the sun we are experiencing the summer solstice. On that day we have the greatest amount of sunlight.\n\nNext stop is the Autumnal equinox. About 1/4 of the way in our orbit around the sun, the Earth's axis is neither pointed toward or away from the sun. All places on earth experience the same amount of daylight/night hours.\n\nAgain, 1/2 the way in it's orbit, the Earth's northern axis is tilted away from the sun so that we get the least amount of daylight hours on this particular day.\n\nAs we move on still, 3/4 of the way around the sun, we experience another equinox. This is the Vernal or Spring equinox. Again, the northern axis is neither pointed toward or away from the sun. Equal daylight/night hours occur.\n\nAs for the Southern Hemisphere: they have the opposite seasons for the very same reasons as above. It is really cool that while we are celebrating Christmas during the winter monthes that the Southern Hemisphere's Dec. 25 is during the SUMMER!\n\nDebunking some common myths (pet peeves of mine):\n\n**Myth 1**The seasons are NOT caused by the distance of Earth from the Sun. In all actuality, the earth is closest in it's orbit to the sun during the winter monthes.\n\n**Myth 2**The earth's axis DOES NOT turn as it goes around the sun! The earth turns on it's axis & the earth revolves around the sun. This combination causes us to be tilted toward or away from the sun!\n\n**Myth 3**An egg will NOT stand on end during an equinox! All eggs have differences in their surfaces which may allow any to be stood on end if you tried it long enough!
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Well it depends on your frame of reference... it spins from west to east so if you were looking down on the earth from above the north pole then it's anti-clockwise. If you look from south pole, it's clockwise.
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Eastings and Northings are UTM Coordinates (Universal Transverse Mercator). These are different from Longitude and Latitude values that are in the degree, minute, second format. \n\nI found the formulas for ALL conversions here in this .PDF (its a defense document so it is dry reading, but TONS of good info)\nhttp://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/publications/tm8358.2/TM8358_2.pdf\n\nand the software program (free) to do the calculations.\nhttp://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/index.html\n\nHere is the main page with all the links on it:\nhttp://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/coordsys/csat_pubs.html\n\nA lot of this LOOKS difficult, but it isn't really. Just take your time and read it carefully. Good luck!
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The Earth is rotating around an axis (called its rotational axis). Some objects rotate about a horizontal axis, like a rolling log. Some objects, such as a skater, rotate about a vertical axis. The Earth's axis is tipped over about 23.5° from vertical.\n\nHow do we define up and down in space? What would "vertical" mean? For the Earth, we can think of vertical as straight up and down with respect to the plane in which the Earth orbits the Sun (called the ecliptic).\n\nEarth's rotational axis points in the same direction relative to the stars, so that the North Pole points towards the star Polaris. Think of the Earth as a spinning top, tipped over to one side. Over very long time periods (thousands of years) the direction of Earth's axis slowly changes due to precession.\n\nThe Earth rotates around once in 24 hours - that's a rate of 1000 miles per hour!. The time it takes for the Earth to rotate completely around once is what we call a day. It's Earth's rotation that gives us night and day.\n\nThe combined effect of the Earth's tilt and its orbital motion result in the seasons
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On average, about once every 250,000 years or so Earth's two magnetic poles switch---the north magnetic pole becomes the south magnetic pole, and the south magnetic pole becomes the north magnetic pole. This means, among many other things, that compasses would all point south instead of north.\n\nScience knows that these pole reversals do happen. Some ancient rocks tell the story. In the far distant past these rocks were molten. At those times their interior materials would align themselves to Earth's magnetic field, much the way an electromagnet will. Careful analysis shows that the magnetic lines of force imbedded in these rocks often were directly opposite to Earth's present magnetic field.\n\nThe last pole reversal happened some 700,000 years ago, so we're sort of overdue for another one.
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North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the northern edge of the territory represented, unless explicitly stated otherwise or landmarks are considered more useful for that territory than specific directions\n\n\n\nTRUE north, the direction along the earth's surface toward one pole of the earth's rotation, namely the pole that is clearly on one's left when standing at the Equator while facing the rising sun.\n\nMAGNETIC north, the direction along the earth's surface in which horizontal magnetic field strength has its most positive value (but see Flipping of planetary magnetic poles for an eventual event, so rare as to make unlikely any advance agreement on whether one or two retronyms would be involved in the replacement terminology)\n\nSouth is also  one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of North and at right angles to East and West.SO ONCE NORTH IS FIXED SOUTH IS IT'S OPPOSITE\n\nBy Western convention, the bottom side of a map is South.\n\n\nSo, the real answer to your question is that it's just a convention & has no scientific basis behind it .
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The axis of earth is tilted 23.45 degree from the ecliptic; and the orbit of the earth around the sun is not a perfect circle (it is an ellipse, and thus the distance from earth to the sun changes over the course of a year)
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Actually our geographic north is south pole of our big earths magnet and similarly with south....\n\nActualy it is just a convention we can consider anything as north or south,..... similar to positive and negative chages.\n\nRecently scientists have found that the earth's polarity is changing, while this process is going on there will be a break down in our earth's protective magnetic field.\n\nSo cosmic radiations can through earth's atmos.....\n\nFor this stage to sttain there is around a 1000 years to go.
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north and south poles