Levitation with copper

Levitating magnets: A tutorial including sample video and PDF

Author: Santi Vilchez, L'Hospitalet, Spain

Online since: 17/11/2011, Number of visits: 375635

A beautiful and uncomplicated construction to demonstrate magnetic levitation. It fits perfectly into our customer project collection on the topic of Levitation.

Material needed (see picture for details):

A plastic pipe
2 rods of pyrolytic (pure) copper
Attention: Doesn't work with non-pyrolytic copper!
1 rod of soft-magnetic iron
1 S-30-15-N disc magnet
3 S-15-05-N disc magnets
Gasket rings

Demonstration (Spanish):

pdf file

This pdf (Spanish) is an excerpt from the magazine "Investigación y Ciencia" from February of 2006, when this installation was introduced.

Articles used

S-30-15-N
Disc magnet Ø 30 mm, height 15 mm, holds approx. 24 kg, neodymium, N42, nickel-plated

	1 pc.	12,89 EUR ea.*
from	3 pcs.	11,41 EUR ea.*
from	10 pcs.	10,08 EUR ea.*
from	20 pcs.	9,44 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	8,86 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 120 pcs.

Available approx. 08/05/2025

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S-15-05-N
Disc magnet Ø 15 mm, height 5 mm, holds approx. 4,5 kg, neodymium, N42, nickel-plated

	5 pcs.	1,52 EUR ea.*
from	15 pcs.	1,34 EUR ea.*
from	40 pcs.	1,21 EUR ea.*
from	80 pcs.	1,13 EUR ea.*
Ask for a rebate from 550 pcs.

Available: 240 pcs.

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