Talk:Mag/@comment-72.193.100.43-20160825212200

Gauss and Coil are very common words to hear when discussing Electromagnetism, and do not refer strictly to Birkeland's accelerator. Gauss was a briliant mathematician who made significant contributions to Electromagnetic theory; his name was used as the predominate unit for magnetic fields before the SI Tesla. Coils are used to convert between magnetic fields and electric currents.