With the Floating Magnets Demonstration, show that like poles of magnets repel each other and unlike poles attract each other. Magnetic levitation seems like magic even if you have witnessed it many times.
Magnetic levitation seems like magic even if you have witnessed it many times. Use this simple and easy lab apparatus to demonstrate that like poles of magnets repel each other and unlike poles attract each other. When placed on the center pole in the right order, these ring magnets appear to magically levitate above each other. When reversed they are attracted to each other at the base of the center pole.