Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 340 g
ISBN: 978-1-119-99141-0
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
Superconductivity is a quantum phenomenon that manifests itself in materials showing zero electrical resistance below a characteristic temperature resulting in the potential for an electric current to run continually through such a material without the need for a power source. Such materials are used extensively in medical and power applications, e.g. MRI and NMR machines.
Discovering Superconductivity uses a series of practical and investigative activities, which can be used as tutor demonstrations or as student lab exercises.
This highly illustrated text features the following sections:
* Introduction - including a brief history of superconductivity
* Superconductivity - an explanation of the phenomenon and its effects
* Superconducting materials - including High & Low temperature superconductors
* Applications - how superconductivity is used in medical imaging, at CERN and in the Maglev trains
This text will serve as an excellent introduction for students, with or without a physics background, to superconductivity. With a strong practical, experimental emphasis, it provides readers with an overview of the topic preparing them for more advanced texts used in advanced undergraduate and post-graduate courses.
PowerPoint files of the figures presented within this text are available at: http://booksupport.wiley.com A word from the author: "The intention of this text is to introduce the reader to the study of superconductivity via a minds-on approach. The minds-on approach takes this a stage further by requiring the learner to engage with the process to a greater extent."
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1. Introduction
Resistivity and Conduction in metals
History of Superconductivity
2. Superconductivity
An explanation of superconductivity
The Meissner-Ochsenfeld Effect
Diamagnetic Effects
Persistence of current
Type I and Type II Superconductors
Flux Pinning
3. Superconducting Materials
Low Temperature Superconductors
Organic Superconductors
High Temperature Superconductors
4. Applications
Medical Imaging
CERN
Maglev Trains
Practical Activities: will be integrated into the text; a-f in section 2 and f and g in section 4
a. Diamagnetism 1: pyrolitic graphite
b. Diamagnetism 2: Bismuth
c. Diamagnetism 3: Meissner-Ochsenfeld Effect
d. Transition Temperature
e. Persistence of Current
f. Flux Pinning
g. Maglev Train Model
