Magnetic Levitation - Science is Fun
Magnetic, diamagnetic and superconductor levitation topics and links

As a child, I discovered I could levitate a ping pong ball on a stream of air from the output pipe of a vacuum cleaner. This is similar to optical levitation of a glass bead in a laser beam (pressure from photon recoil instead of an air stream). I hope you enjoy the many exciting ways to levitate objects.

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News Items:
Scientists levitate mice. (Live Science) Original article published online 9-6-2009 in journal, Advances in Space Research.
Maglev train crash in Germany kills 23
There is an interesting article on Space Elevators in the September 2005 issue of Nuts and Volts magazine.
There is a good Magnetic Levitation project and circuit in the September 2003 issue of Nuts and Volts magazine. See the article in .pdf format at the Magnetic Levitation Kit (Guy Marsden) link below.


What is a magnetic field? Does a magnet slow time? (3-23-2008) or Download as .pdf file.
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Levitating World Globe, a look inside
Levitron
Tethered wrench levitation
Revolution & Wheelo Junior toys
Frog Levitation (University of Nijmegen, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Magnetic levitation stand and circuit (Barry Hansen)
Magnetic Levitation Kit (Guy Marsden)
Diamagnetic levitation between bismuth metal plates (Simon Quellen Field)
Diamagnetic levitation demonstration device (Martin Simon)
Diamagnetic levitation using silver (David Fiedler)
Diamagnetic levitation using graphite (John C. Lahr)
Magnetic Levitation projects (Peter Terren)
FlyingMagnet.com (R. Deroussent)
Magnet levitation over spinning hard disk drive (Mike Harrison)
Levitation melting of aluminum (Jonathan Mestel)
Levitation melting (Ameritherm Inc.)
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Florida State University)
Boeing MagLev speed record 6,121 miles per hour (Boeing)
Levitating a 1/2 ton superconducting ring (Columbia University & MIT)
Resolving Individual Magnetic Flux Lines (University of Oslo, Norway)
Superconducting levitation and suspension movies (University of Oslo, Norway)
Meissner effect levitation (University of British Columbia)
Colorado Superconductor Inc. demonstration kits
Magnetic levitation and suspension patents
Maglev page links (Bill Beaty)
Magnetic Disc Levitator (C. Wayne Macleod)
Magnetic field particle theory (Joseph Newman)
Wavicles (William H.F. Christie)
Do quantum particles have a structure? (T.S. Natarajan)

More Magnet and Magnetism topics & links

The magnetic sun (NASA)
Magnetars
The exploration of the earth's magnetosphere (NASA)
Sunspots and the solar cycle (NASA)
Real time images of sun storms (SOHO)
Magnetic fields as solar sails (Washington University)
Portrait of an Atom (Kenneth Snelson)
Zeeman Effect (CERN)
Basics of NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance)(Joseph P. Hornak)
Magnetic resonance periodic table (University of Illinois)
Magnetic levitation demonstration (University of Wisconsin)
Magnet Man - Experiments with magnets
Suspended Objects Experiment (Magnet Man)
Repel a flame with a magnet (Exploratorium)
Repel a grape with a magnet (Exploratorium)
Floating & braking a magnet with eddy currents in copper (Exploratorium)
Force between magnets as a function of distance (Exploratorium)
2000 years of magnetism in 40 minutes (Paul Doherty)
Relativity in your television (Paul Doherty)
Background information for magnets (Museum of Sci/Tech, Canada)
Magnetism and Magnetic Physics (Forcefield)
How to build a magnetometer (NCEMO)

Levitation by sound, light, water, and electrostatic pressures

Ultrasonic Levitation in Air at 20 kHZ (Nihon U, Japan)
Optical levitation (Petter Hagburg)
Levitation by water pressure of a 10,518 pound granite sphere
Electrostatic levitation (Exploratorium)

Gravity modification - antigravity links

Lifters you can build (Jean-Louis Naudin)
American Antigravity
Antigravity aircraft? (American Antigravity)
Boeing tries to defy gravity (BBC NEWS Science-Nature)
Antigravity effect measured? (European Space Agency)
Gravity breakthrough (Horizon Technology)
Gyroscopic Antigravity?
The rise and fall of gyro-gravity (John G. Cramer)
Anti-Gravity (Bill Beaty)
The Master Key (L. Frank Baum)

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