Research Catalog

Title

Rising force : the magic of magnetic levitation / James D. Livingston.

Author

Livingston, James D., 1930-

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

xi, 271 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

An exploration of levitation that discusses the use of magnetic forces to overcome gravity and friction, examines its applications, and explains the science behind maglev transportation systems.

Subject

• Magnetic fields
• Magnetic suspension
• magnetic field
• Technology
• Magnetismus
• Magnetfeld
• Supraleitung
• Magnetschwebebahn
• Levitation
• Schweben
• Magnetismus
• Magnetfeld
• Supraleitung
• Magnetschwebebahn
• Levitation
• Sustentation magnétique
• Champs magnétiques

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Levity vs. gravity. Fictional and illusional levitation ; Wingardium leviosa! ; Mystical levitation ; Physical levitation without magnets -- Gravitational and magnetic forces. Forces of the universe ; Magnetic forces ; Magnetic materials -- Maglev : a balance of forces. Poles apart ; Force at a distance ; The floating island of Laputa ; Stability and degrees of freedom -- Spinning the Levitron. Only a toy ; Toy story ; The super -- Inducing uplift. Mutual induction ; Flinging rings and things ; Eddy-current heating and levitation melting ; Fields of force -- Flying frogs. The Ig Nobel Prize ; Diamagnetism and the Moses Effect ; Diamagnetic levitation and stabilization ; Froglev -- Super-levitation. Superdiamagnetism and supercurrents ; Higher fields ; Higher temperatures -- Feeding back. Brief recap ; Floating globes ; Floatin' in the wind ; Snowball in hell ; Microbots and pigs -- In a spin. Bearing up ; Enriching and proliferating ; A few words about energy ; Flying wheels ; Pumping blood ; Floating rotors -- The no-spin zone. Flying broomsticks ; Flotors and the maglev touch ; Maglev nanotechnology ; Sub-nano : angstroms and atoms ; Maglev rocket sleds -- Flying trains. Emile Bachelet ; Kemper and electromagnetic levitation (EML) ; Powell/Danby and electrodynamic levitation (EDL) ; The competition -- All aboard! Urban maglev ; Permanent-magnet maglev ; Transrapid trials and tribulations ; Sin express to Vegas ; Maglev deployment program and ARRA -- Keeping it up. Up with magnets! ; Magnetic personalities ; Ben Franklin's vision : levity over gravity.

ISBN

• 9780674055353
• 0674055357

LCCN

• 2010047290
• 40019383341

OCLC

• ocn676725380
• 676725380
• SCSB-1676262

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library