Procedure :
1. Take a thin wooden plank and cover it with whitepaper.
2. Make two holes to the plank and pass insulated copper wire through the holes and wind the wire 4 to 5 times through the holes such that it looks like a coil.
3. The ends of the wire are connected to the battery terminals.
4. Now place a compass needle at the centre of the coil.
5. Put dots on either side of the compass. Repeat this by keeping at the dots. We can observe that field lines are circular.
6. Here the direction of the field is perpendicular to the plane of the coil.
7. The direction of the magnetic field due to coil points towards you when the current in the coil is in anti-clockwise direction.
8. When you curl your right hand fingers in the direction of current, thumb gives the direction of magnetic field.
