Abstract
When a heated cylinder having a vertical axis of rotation is suspended in a rarefied polyatomic gas, application of a vertical magnetic field produces a torque resulting in a turning of the cylinder. In this ``ordinary'' thermomagnetic gas torque effect, molecular precession occurs about the vertical direction. Addition of a horizontal magnetic field component tips the precession axis to a nonvertical direction. If the cylinder axis is maintained vertical, the nonvertical field produces two interesting effects: (1) the magnitude of the total field for maximum torque is increased (qualitatively indicating an increase in angle of precession between molecular collisions); and (2) the measured maximum vertical torque is found to be larger than the calculated vertical component.
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