TY  - BOOK
AU  - Livingston,James D.
TI  - Rising force: the magic of magnetic levitation 
SN  - 9780674061095
AV  - QC754 .R575 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Magnetic fields
KW  - Magnetic suspension
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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