5K20.40 The Floating Pan

PURPOSE: To demonstrate a useful advantage of Lenz' Law

DESCRIPTION: An sluminum dish floats above a shaped alternating-current field

SETUP TIME: Medium

COMPONENT LIST:

  1. This apparatus is currently missing.

SUGGESTIONS: This demonstration can only be done with AC. Mention should be made of mag-lev trains in Japan and Europe.

REFERENCES: 2122 4.99; PIRA 5K20.40

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