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Maglev Post #3 (The Final One)

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Our first track design was the track used 11 magnets, 3 strip. 8 rings. For our vehicle we used 7 Magnets altogether. 2 strip magnets and 5 ring magnets. 2 on the edges and the 5 ring magnets in between.

This is our first group design.

 

One of our problems was our vehicle keep on tilting to both sides, back and forth. So we had to align our magnets to one centimeter away from the edge of the paper. So we did that a centimeter away form the edge of the paper for the track and vehicle so it would be equal and not tilt. Another problem was that the disk magnets did not work at all. We tried and it didn’t levitate as high as the final and second one.

 

Our final design was simple it had 2 magnets on each edge. On the vehicle it had 1 magnet on both edges like the track. But only with 2 strip magnets altogether on the vehicle. Altogether strip magnets on the track was 4. So in all we had 6 strip magnets for our final design.

This is our train, the 2 strip magnets on each edge.

This is our final track design. We had to fix this the most.

Our thoughts and feelings were basic. We were sad/mad when I tried putting ring magnets on top of the vehicle, I thought it would levitate higher. We were happy when it all aligned right. It was surprising for me because I thought the second time we did the maglev train (Maglev Post #2) was kind of better than this time to be honest.

This is a birds eye view, google drawing for our maglev train.

Maglev Post #2

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We did a lot of things that worked including we only used strip magnets because the discs didn’t work as well.  We put 1 magnet on each side like a normal train track, but no magnets in the middle. We had to keep on putting more magnets on top of each other. On the train we only put 1 magnet on each side and not 2 or 3 on each side because it would be to heavy.

 

We didn’t fail a lot, yesterday we didn’t have anything good so we restarted. Then first try we thought of something good. We learned that we needed more magnets to make it be more stable.The changes that we made was that we should put more magnets on the track since we had all together on the track, 2 magnets. So we upgraded to have 3 stip magnets on each side of the track.

 

Our goal is to move into the improve phase by putting more passengers in the cup and if it falls then we will upgrade the track again, until we have about 20 – 30 rocks that stay on. 

 

This my group and I doing the 1 strip magnets on each side altogether 2 strip magnets.

 

We were very hard working. We were very proud after this worked.

 

Maglev Train Post #1

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A Maglev train is a magnetic levitating train, it is levitating from magnets on the train and track. That’s why it’s called a Maglev train. On the train bottom of our design, there are 2 strips on the top and bottom of the bottom of the train, there are 5 magnets in the middle too. On the track there are 3 strips on on the middle on on top and one on the bottom. There 8 ring magnets altogether. 4 magnets in between each strip magnet.

 

Nothing worked, and part of our track failed. The train magnets would attract to the track magnets and tip over and attract to the side of the magnet. Also we had to keep taking the tape off and keep putting it on. It was pretty confusing.

 

The experience wasn’t very good, though we got inspired by other groups that had a success. We tried and tried, It wasn’t successful still. It was really challenging there were tape scraps everywhere. Before we had started we taped down the track, so our arms were crunched in the box when we all tried to work on the track taping down the magnets. The The experience with my group was fine, it was kinda hard because there were only 2 jobs, track and train. But we helped each other so it was fine.

This is our group design, but we changed it so it would work.