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A compass needle, pivoted about the horizontal axis and forced to move in the magnetic meridian is observed to point along (i) vertical direction at place A, (ii) horizontal direction at place B. What are the angles of dip at the two places?

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At place A, `delta=90^@` and at place B, `delta=0^@`
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