Building a Floating Maglev Train

Introduction:

This project is an elaborate small scale representation of a maglev train where we find the optimum load for a maglev train in motion on a 63-centimeter track. To discover the optimum load, the magnetic field was assessed by carrying various loads. This is due to how magnetic levitation is an approach by which a thing or any object is hanging without any support apart from the magnetic fields. This magnetic levitation approach is utilized for designing this simple maglev train.

Though there's a factor of the maglev train rails having a high cost, there are numbers of advantages in maglev trains than the rest. For one, the rails have no direct contact with the rails meaning that there are no physical moving parts of the train that needs to be built so it results in lower operational and maintenance costs and less noise as well. Because the train glides alongside the railway, and in contrast to traditional trains, it's miles greater eocnomically for maglev trains to journey at a completely excessive charges of speed. Furthermore, the absense of a combustion engine weighs no pollution, making those trains one of the greater environmentally sound manufacturing of trains.

But with the rails gliding on the rails, it's important to know it's capacity of people as compared to regular trains since they are built off of different technology. So in our STEMSOS project, we chose to research a small scale version of maglev trains to see their force limitis and to see the physics behind it floating.

Driving Question:

The high cost of maglev systems results from the need for a stand-alone guideway construction but building a maglev prototype like this can help operate maglev systems has demonstrated drastically reduced operating costs and carbon emissions. Another problem is what is its maximum capacity before it touches the track.

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