Magnetic Levitation on The Chuo Shinkansen

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Firstly let’s talk about Chuo Shinkansen. The Chou Shinkansen is the new developing project of Shinkansen in Japan. The train is predicted as the fastest train in the earth when it is running and ready to go. Behind the fastest tittle given to the Chuo Shinkansen, have you ever wondering how can it happen. The answer is the mechanism itself.

Let’s take a look at the Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) word. From the word itself we can assume that it has something to do with magnetic, and levitation here can mean that the train doesn’t have a direct contact with the ground. The train is lifted by the magnetic field created by the rail

and the train itself.

From the picture above, we can say that the train is floating by the magnetic field. Remember about magnet in primary school. If two magnet faced one by one by the same pole (+ and +) or (- and -) the magnet will repel each other.

The next question is why do that ? I think Fast is the answer. Have you ever think that, after we lifted the weight there will be no fraction, no weight to hold, what we only have to do is moved the train. And how we do that ?

To do that, we make use of magnetic field flux. Flux is a force that produced by modifying magnetic field. So, we have to manipulate the magnetic field that create a flux to push the train to move into a super high speed.