Ever wonder what it would be like if gravity wasn’t dragging you down? Students’ pursuit to answer this question inspired the creation of the Superconducting Levitation demo. Using superconductors cooled to the liquid nitrogen temperature and a magnetic track, the demo exhibits a train that floats above the track due to electric currents circulating in a superconductor. “What seems like a complicated process turns out to be a simple feat of physics,” said Callie Rethman ’20, one of the student demonstrators.
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