Magnetic Levitation

[pinoy_escibidoo]

Greetings!!

Hi! I'm pinoy_escibidoo from the philippines...I'm just in the stage of preparation for next year's science fair... During this years science fair at Agusan National High School (ANHS) I came a cross a topic with the application of maglev on a car so my friend's and I wanted to make a project on regarding on that topic...

We plan to make a platform which can carry weights using magnetic levitation...

Can somebody a comprehensive step-by step prcedure on how to make a maglev train.. we'll use this as a guide to aply it to our project...

And please andvice some ideas regarding to our topic... on how many magnets should we use and the design itself..

Please and thank You!!

[deleted-2574]

Hi pinoy_escibidoo,

Answers to your question can be found by posing "how do you build a maglev train" to answers.com

among the top hits are:

http://amasci.com/maglev/train.html for directions on how to build a maglev train

http://www.answers.com/topic/magnetic-levitation for magnetic levitation background

http://www.answers.com/topic/shinkansen for background on the Shinkansen an actual maglev train.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/0 ... ev_tr.html

Note: there was a previous Science Buddies maglev topic that may provide useful info. See:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentorin ... 6ed5c20f3a

[pinoy_escibidoo]

Thanks for all the links!!

But can i ask a tiny little favor? can anyone give a me a site with a step-by step procedure on how to build a maglev train?

With procedures materials, and pictures and stuff??

I'd really appreciate it...

[deleted-71447]

Hi,
I would suggest you take another look at the links that David provided. *Hint hint.*
Chris