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Music Flies: The Cause Of A Magnet

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The process of how magnets repel each other causing levitation Magnets have always been a mystery. The curiosity of how the magnets attract or repel one another has always been a topic that scientists are deeply interested in discovering. Over the years, many scientists have made huge strides in the scientific world as to how magnets work. Magnets that repel one another can cause one of the magnets to levitate over the other. A magnet is an object with a magnetic field. A magnet appeals to any object containing iron. These objects are considered ferrous objects and may include pieces of iron, cobalt, nickel, and steel. The end of a magnet will always point in either the North or South direction. The end that points north is called the North Pole and the end that points south is called the South Pole. It …show more content…

If a magnet is near a superconductor, it will repel the other because the supercurrents reflect the charge of the poles. Superconductors are defined as, “An element or metallic alloy which, when cooled to near absolute zero, dramatically lose all electrical resistance.” Superconductivity was discovered in 1911 by a Dutch physicist, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. This discovery won him a Nobel Prize in physics in 1913. Many Nobel Prizes have been awarded to various scientists since superconductivity was discovered. Superconductors can show signs of the Meissner effect; the Meissner effect causes all magnetic instability inside the element to change. When this happens, the lines around the magnetic field will orbit the superconductor. The properties of superconductors are used in scientific experiments. (Zimmerman, 2015) If a permanent magnet is located beyond a superconductor, it can cause an illusion of levitation by this force. Levitation currents caused by the superconductor will produce actual magnetic poles to repel and support the magnets. (Magnetic Levitation,

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