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Magnetic Levitation

Post by 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..

:) :D Please and thank You!! :D :)
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Re: Magnetic Levitation

Post by davidkallman »

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
Cheers!

Dave
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Re: Magnetic Levitation

Post by pinoy_escibidoo »

Thanks for all the links!! :D :)

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?? :roll:

I'd really appreciate it... :idea: :mrgreen:
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Re: Magnetic Levitation

Post by ChrisG »

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