A coil of wire, or solenoid, consists of a wire coiled up into a spiral shape. When an electric current flows, the shape of the magnetic field is very similar to the field of a bar magnet.

It uses a number of coils to produce a magnetic field to levitate the 3D printed plastic snail which contains the lighting element itself. The actively controlled levitation base uses a magnetic ...

It explains how electrons are accelerated by an electron gun and then deflected by a magnetic field created by Helmholtz coils. The experiment measures the mass of an electron by analyzing the ...

But, there may be another way, albeit a rather special case, where a magnet can not only be levitated, but locked in place using a rotating magnetic field. The video shows a demonstration of how ...

A coil of wire, or solenoid, consists of a wire coiled up into a spiral shape. When an electric current flows, the shape of the magnetic field is very similar to the field of a bar magnet.