Magnets

 

• FSU Magnet Lab Students from the Academic Resource Center Tallahasse, FL)describe magnets.
• National High Magnetic Lab
• Magnetic Levitation
  • MagLev trains in Japan
  • Magnetic Levitation Trains. Go to The Franklin Institute Science Museum. Select Scientist in the City. Select the link to Resource List. Scroll down to transportation links and check out the links to Magnetic Levitation. Courtesy of Kim L.
  • Principle of Superconducting Maglev Courtesy of Jessica F.
  • Magnet Levitation Trains from the web site: How Things Work
  • How High Speed Trains Make Tracks from Scientific American magazine Courtesy of Jenny K.
• Try using a search engine (for example, Metacrawler) using words like: magnet, magnetic levitation, disneyworld+monorail (Is the monorail at Disney a maglev train?).