Rising force : the magic of magnetic levitation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Livingston, James D., 1930-
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Levity vs. Gravity
  • Fictional and Illusional Levitation
  • Wingardium Leviosa!
  • Mystical Levitation
  • Physical Levitation without Magnets
  • 2. Gravitational and Magnetic Forces
  • Forces of the Universe
  • Magnetic Forces
  • Magnetic Materials
  • 3. Maglev-A Balance of Forces
  • Poles Apart
  • Force at a Distance
  • The Floating Island of Laputa
  • Stability and Degrees of Freedom
  • 4. Spinning the Levitron
  • Only a Toy
  • Toy Story
  • The Super
  • 5. Inducing Uplift
  • Mutual Induction
  • Flinging Rings and Things
  • Eddy-Current Heating and Levitation Melting
  • Fields of Force
  • 6. Flying Frogs
  • The Ig Nobel Prize
  • Diamagnetism and the Moses Effect
  • Diamagnetic Levitation and Stabilization
  • Froglev
  • 7. Super-Levitation
  • Superdiamagnetism and Supercurrents
  • Higher Fields
  • Higher Temperatures
  • 8. Feeding Back
  • Brief Recap
  • Floating Globes
  • Floatin' in the Wind
  • Snowball in Hell
  • Microbots and Pigs
  • 9. In a Spin
  • Bearing Up
  • Enriching and Proliferating
  • A Few Words about Energy
  • Flying Wheels
  • Pumping Blood
  • Floating Rotors
  • 10. The No-Spin Zone
  • Flying Broomsticks
  • Flotors and the Maglev Touch
  • Maglev Nanotechnology
  • Sub-Nano: Angstroms and Atoms
  • Maglev Rocket Sleds
  • 11. Flying Trains
  • Emile Bachelet
  • Kemper and Electromagnetic Levitation (EML)
  • Powell/Danby and Electrodynamic Levitation (EDL)
  • The Competition
  • 12. All Aboard!
  • Urban Maglev
  • Permanent-Magnet Maglev
  • Transrapid Trials-and Tribulations
  • Sin Express to Vegas
  • Maglev Deployment Program and ARRA
  • 13. Keeping It Up
  • Up with Magnets!
  • Magnetic Personalities
  • Ben Franklin's Vision: Levity over Gravity
  • Sources and Suggested Readings
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index