Sling launch of a mass using superconducting levitation

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 240-247

  Tidman, Derek A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DATAssociates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FRICTION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; PROJECTILES; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

ACCELERATING CORIOLIS FORCE; CRYOGENIC TUBE; SUPERCONDUCTING LEVITATION;

MAGNETIC LEVITATION;

EID: 0029752690     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.477577     Document Type: Article

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