Understanding Earth Parameters: Dip Angle, Latitude & More

[Ehabali]

Hi All,

I have some parameters here and I can not understand what are they mean?

dip Angle
dip Latitude
invariant Latitude
Geomagnetic Latitude
L-Shells

Thanks

 

[tiny-tim]

Welcome to PF!

Hi Ehabali! Welcome to PF!

You can find all these things in wikipedia … for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dip_angle"

 

[Ehabali]

Tiny-Tim,
Thank you very much

The problem is that I can't understand deeply what is meant by these expressions.
I read what is written in Wikipedia, but I still can't imagine it.

 

[tiny-tim]

oooh, i don't think i can improve on several pages of wikipedia

is there any particular passage from wikipedia you'd like explained? ​

 

[Studiot]

It takes a lot of practice to think in three dimensions.

Do the work manually, draw lots of diagrams, reproduces the ones in your book/on the net or build some simple cardboard models.