How Superconducting Levitation Works

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An education video describing how the cool technology of superconductors in magnetic levitation works.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: March 4, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Author: zeezz

Length: 0:06:31
Rating: 4.80
Views: 513,936

Tags: magnet superconductor superconducting levitate levitation maglev meissner float flux trapping effect

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theoriginalJASONXYZ (Saturday 29th of November 2008 07:15:56 AM)
neat o
vizeeee (Thursday 27th of November 2008 01:20:22 PM)
big nails
arbide2 (Thursday 20th of November 2008 09:24:52 AM)
Truly inspirational.
bv90andy (Sunday 16th of November 2008 01:41:49 AM)
is it possible to crate materials that are superconductors at normal temperatures? like at 0* C or something like that? that will be a breakthrough.
onlyontuesdays99 (Sunday 30th of November 2008 02:13:16 PM)
... please look up 0 Celsius. For me.
bobthenormal (Sunday 30th of November 2008 07:31:40 PM)
If that "look up 0 Celsius" was to the guy who asked if these could be created at that temperature, maybe you should look it up yourself. 0 C is the freezing point of water, aka 273 K or 32 F. It's a very common temperature. And no, no superconductors have been found that exist at such a high (relatively) temperature. But superconductivity is not fully understood, and we have gradually found higher and higher temperature superconductors, so it may be possible.
bv90andy (Monday 1st of December 2008 03:15:43 AM)
thx
fireangel35 (Monday 10th of November 2008 02:20:09 AM)
It works as long as the supraconductor is indeed a supraconductor, needing very low temperatures : 77,36 K (-195,79°C)in this case.
atlanticus (Sunday 9th of November 2008 01:12:34 AM)
You need the superconductor doing it's job in normal temperatures, then this will be of any practical use. Also this experiment is pretty dangerous, the frost-bite from the liquid nitrogen is very likely if you are not careful enough.
ligglo (Wednesday 5th of November 2008 09:23:17 PM)
kool! i want a super-conductor! lol