A dip needle placed in the magnetic meridian at a location on the Earth's surface makes an angle of with the horizontal. If the total intensity of the Earth's magnetic field at this location is , what is the vertical component of the Earth's magnetic field?
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The vertical component of the Earth's magnetic field is .
The vertical component of the Earth's magnetic field is given by . Substituting and yields .
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Resolution of Earth's total magnetic field into horizontal and vertical components