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Lab, Camera, Action: Maglev Train

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
Wheels are so last century. We’ve got a train set which doesn’t have any; it just floats around the track in a billowing cloud of steam. Dr Andrew Steele explains how our superconducting magnetic levitation—or maglev—train really works.

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
People
Andrew Steele
Keywords
Physics
science
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:05:27

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