For our first desine we failed and here’s what we did.  We put 6 disc magnets on each side of the track and 12 all together. We had to make sure that all of it was lined up though because The magnets have to be lined up to repel. We also made it all facing North.  For our vehical we got 5 disc magnets all together and 4 in the corners. Four the fifth we put it in the middle of the vehicle. We also put them all facing North so that it repels with the track.

Our problem that we had was our vical kept wobbling. The goal was to make it go safe and efficiently across the track and not wobble. What we did to revise it was we used strip magnets instead of disc magnets so all the magnets are lined up. We put one strip magnet on each side of the vehicle and 3 strip magnets on each side of the track because more magnets on the bottom, the hire it goes. We did not put it on the vehicle because the more magnets on the top, the lower it goes.

Our final desine was 3 strip magnets on each side of the track and 1 strip magnet on each side of the vehicle. Our design worked because all of the magnets were lined up so it repels. Also what made it work was all the magnets were north to each other so that also made it repel because like poles repel and opposite poles attract. Also if the magnets are not lined up then the train will wobble and won’t levitait.

How I felt about this is good because we all worked together and we all did the same amount of work on the train and we put everyone’s ideas into the train and one person did not take over the whole train and one person did not tell us what to do.

At the end of the whole thing we put marbles on our train. We wanted to see how many we could fit, 1…2…3 and so on all the way up to 40! It was fun and our group made a succesful maglev train.

Our train working!

This is our maglev train from birds eye view