Rising force : the magic of magnetic levitation /
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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