The Physics of Maglev

Physics 212
Wendy Presler
November 2009


http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/levitating-and-nanotube-lifts.html

What is Maglev?

Maglev stands for magnetic levitation and describes the method in which an object is suspended in the air by the properties of magnetism.  This process defies gravity and allows objects to be suspended in the air.  Earnshaw's theorem shows that static ferromagnetism allows objects to levitate by using diamagnetic materials, superconduction, or systems involving eddy currents.  (Induced Eddy currents are also known as Electro-Dynamic Suspension  or EDS.)


http://www.physics.ucla.edu/demoweb/demomanual/electricity_and_magnetism/maglev/index.html

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MONORAILS

HISTORY OF MONORAILS

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