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This book introduces the physical principles behind levitation with superconductors, and includes many examples of practical magnetic levitation demonstrations using superconducting phenomena.
It features more than twenty examples of magnetic levitation in liquid nitrogen using high temperature superconductors and permanent magnets, all invented by the author. The book includes the demonstration of suspension phenomenon induced by magnetic flux pinning as well as magnetic levitation by the Meissner effect. It shows how superconducting magnetic levitation and suspension phenomena fire the imagination and provide scientific insight and inspiration.
This book will be a useful experimental guide and teaching resource for those working on superconductivity, and a fascinating text for undergraduate and graduate students.
List of contents
Chapter 1. History of Superconductivity.- Chapter 2. Synthesis of High-Tc Oxide Superconductors.- Chapter 3. Magnetic Levitation Forces of Superconductors.- Chapter 4. Cooling Method.- Chapter 5. Levitation.- Experiments Using the Meissner Effect.- Chapter 6. Measurement of Magnetic Levitation Forces Using Scales.- Chapter 7. Levitation of Magnets above Superconductors.- Chapter 8. Suspension Experiments Using Flux pinning.- Chapter 9. Superconducting Suspension Experiment Kit.- Chapter 10. Magnetic Levitation Train.- Chapter 11. Applications of Superconductors.
About the author
Chan-Joong Kim received PhD in Materials Science from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering. He is currently the head of superconductor research team at the Neutron Science Division of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and also the President of The Korean Superconductivity Society (KSS). He also acts as the editorial board member of Korea Material Research Society, and Korea Ceramic Society. His research interests are 1) Uranium and uranium alloys 2) YBCO superconductors 3) YBCO coated conductors 4) BSCCO superconductors 5) MgB2 superconductors. He published about 200 academic papers on Superconductivity in SCI international Journals.
Summary
This book introduces the physical principles behind levitation with superconductors, and includes many examples of practical magnetic levitation demonstrations using superconducting phenomena.
It features more than twenty examples of magnetic levitation in liquid nitrogen using high temperature superconductors and permanent magnets, all invented by the author. The book includes the demonstration of suspension phenomenon induced by magnetic flux pinning as well as magnetic levitation by the Meissner effect. It shows how superconducting magnetic levitation and suspension phenomena fire the imagination and provide scientific insight and inspiration.
This book will be a useful experimental guide and teaching resource for those working on superconductivity, and a fascinating text for undergraduate and graduate students.
