| Preface |
| Levity vs. Gravity / 1： |
| Fictional and Illusional Levitation |
| Wingardium Leviosa! |
| Mystical Levitation |
| Physical Levitation without Magnets |
| Gravitational and Magnetic Forces / 2： |
| Forces of the Universe |
| Magnetic Forces |
| Magnetic Materials |
| Maglev-A Balance of Forces / 3： |
| Poles Apart |
| Force at a Distance |
| The Floating Island of Laputa |
| Stability and Degrees of Freedom |
| Spinning the Levitron / 4： |
| Only a Toy |
| Toy Story |
| The Super |
| Inducing Uplift / 5： |
| Mutual Induction |
| Flinging Rings and Things |
| Eddy-Current Heating and Levitation Melting |
| Fields of Force |
| Flying Frogs / 6： |
| The Ig Nobel Prize |
| Diamagnetism and the Moses Effect |
| Diamagnetic Levitation and Stabilization |
| Froglev |
| Super-Levitation / 7： |
| Superdiamagnetism and Supercurrents |
| Higher Fields |
| Higher Temperatures |
| Feeding Back / 8： |
| Brief Recap |
| Floating Globes |
| Floatin' in the Wind |
| Snowball in Hell |
| Microbots and Pigs |
| In a Spin / 9： |
| Bearing Up |
| Enriching and Proliferating |
| A Few Words about Energy |
| Flying Wheels |
| Pumping Blood |
| Floating Rotors |
| The No-Spin Zone / 10： |
| Flying Broomsticks |
| Flotors and the Maglev Touch |
| Maglev Nanotechnology |
| Sub-Nano: Angstroms and Atoms |
| Maglev Rocket Sleds |
| Flying Trains / 11： |
| Emile Bachelet |
| Kemper and Electromagnetic Levitation (EML) |
| Powell/Danby and Electrodynamic Levitation (EDL) |
| The Competition |
| All Aboard! / 12： |
| Urban Maglev |
| Permanent-Magnet Maglev |
| Transrapid Trials-and Tribulations |
| Sin Express to Vegas |
| Maglev Deployment Program and ARRA |
| Keeping It Up / 13： |
| Up with Magnets! |
| Magnetic Personalities |
| Ben Franklin's Vision: Levity over Gravity |
| Sources and Suggested Readings |
| Acknowledgments |
| Index |
| Preface |
| Levity vs. Gravity / 1： |
| Fictional and Illusional Levitation |
| Wingardium Leviosa! |
| Mystical Levitation |
| Physical Levitation without Magnets |
