Can Two Solenoids Levitate a Steel Ball?

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Start date Jan 16, 2008
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Jan 16, 2008

yawdapaah

If I had two identical solenoids parallel with a small gap between them and put a steel ball between them, would the ball levitate?

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foxjwill

I'd suggest renaming the title of this thread. Most physicists gut instinct at reading the word "levitate" is to cringe.

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