Maglev Train

 

                          Maglev Train

By Jacob Farquhar

 

Maglevs trains are trains what float! You may be saying this is magic but it isn’t. A maglev train is a train that levitates above the track. The use of a maglev train is to get to places faster. A maglev train works with magnets. WHen the magnets are faced north and north or south and south they repel and that makes a maglev train float. You may think that the magnets are too small but if you use thousands of them well it will work. We did a project at school and were divided into groups.A maglev train can go really really fast. It could go more than four hundred km! A maglev train is designed to be the fastest train in the world.

 

Our idea for our maglev train was to have four strip magnets on the track and nine ring magnets on the train. We used tape also so we could tape the magnets to the track or the train. We had a box which had the track in it.

Our idea for our maglev train was to have four strip magnets on the track and nine ring magnets on the train. We used tape also so we could tape the magnets to the track or the train. We had a box which had the track in it. We got the track down the right way. We put two layers of strip magnets on the track and it kept flipping round. It was annoying our group. Wemhad me hold it down but then we couldn’t get it on so I held it a different way and we got it on. We also got the ring magnets ready for our train. We didn’t have enough time to attached them though. To accomplish this we used the Engineer Design Process. The Engineer Design Process is made up of five tasks,Create,Ask,Improve,Imagine and Plan.    

We had a bad fail today. We started putting the ring magnets on the train and we got it on. We were so proud that we finished our project. We tested it out and the ring magnet so heavy that the tape couldn’t hold it! We wondered why this happened. Then Mrs. Winders said we could try strip magnets. We tried strip magnets and once we got the strip magnets on the train we hoped it worked. We didn’t have enough time to try it so we were left on a cliff hanger. The next day we got to test it, and it worked!

Did project was fun and I learned a lot. I learned that the Engineer Design Process is very important and every engineer uses it. I learned it is made up of the five tasks,Ask,Create,Plan,Improve and Imagine.  I learned that working with a group is probably one of the best things to work with. I also learned if you ever need help, your group has your back. I learned that maglev trains are a piece of great technology and they are one of the most useful vehicles. I hope you learned a lot from this book.

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