This is my book we worked hard as a class to all do a expert book. We all had to think of a topic that we now all about. I chose a dung beetle because I went to south africa and saw one and was very intrested. The proses was hard we first worked on our table of contens. then we started wrighting
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We made no improvement to the the vehicle but today we only tried to get more marbles across the track safely today. When we started we only put on one, after we got 38 before it stopped working.and barely levitate.
Our track was successful because we put two strip magnets on top of each other to make the magnetic force bigger that made the vehicle levitate higher. We think the train was successful because strip magnets were lighter than the ring magnets so it didn’t levitate as much as the strip.
I learned to not give up even if it didn’t levitate get passengers across. And I learned to not to put such heavy magnets on the train because it is to heavy and can not levitate.
Today we made a lot of progress, we finally got our maglev train to levitate! We found out that ring or disk magnets are too heavy. So we put strip magnets, onto the track and train. Then we realized from our experiments the more magnets there are on the track the higher the train levitates so we put more magnets on the track.
We tried to make our train levitate with disk magnets but it didn’t work. We learned from our mistake and realized they were too heavy and switched to strip magnets
At our next design our goal is to get the passengers to cross the track with it levitating and it not tilting.