Final Design Process Reflection

By:Eddie

Team Members:  Sofia H and Ahanu

My team’s first design for the track was 10 disc magnets, 1 big strip magnet and 1 ring magnet. For the train we taped the ring magnet in the middle of the train with the bottom of the magnet facing north. On the track we put the big strip magnet in the middle of the track and the magnet was facing south. We put the 10 disc magnets on top of the big strip magnet so they can attract.

The problem for our team was that the train kept flipping over and attracting to the track. We improved it by taking the disc magnets off the track and flipping the big bar magnet over so the top of the magnet was facing north, that made it to float but it didn’t make it to go across.

The final design my team made was we put two small strip magnets facing north on the train and two big strip magnets also facing north on the track. We put them in the exact same place but two magnets were on the train and two were on the track just like there was a mirror in between the train and the track.

My feelings for when my team and I were making the Maglev train was angry that it kept flipping over and nervous that we were not going to finish in time.