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Superconductors And Applications

ABSTRACT
In the next few pages I will be talking about superconductors, I will be trying to inform the reader on every thing I know on superconductors, which is not much but hopefully I could talk the reader into trying to figure out a way to make things more energy efficient, but probably not since the only person reading this will be the professor or a teachers assistant how knows everything that I will be saying. However the reason I wanted to write this paper is because of what Dr. Dahiya said the first or second day of class, which was about superconductors and semiconductors, but it was the thing about superconductors that made me think. Once you have read the paper I hope that the point that I get across is what superconductors are and how they could help the world.
INTODUCTION
At the beginning of General Physics II (PH-230-01) at Southeast Missouri State, the class was introduced to the instructor, Dr. Dahiya. After all the basic stuff was said and done he said that he wanted to tell us about superconductors and semiconductors. Since this paper is about superconductors that is what I am going to talk about. Dr. Dahiya really made me think, and after class I have always thought about electricity and other things to lose energy to heat. Dr. Dahiya said that who ever could come up with a superconductor that is cost efficient would be so rich that that person's great-great-grandkids would be taken care of, that is how much superconductors could change the world. Now some people have made superconductors and there are superconductors out there, but none that would be cheap enough to use on power lines, car engines, and other things that make energy. Dr. Dahiya [1] said that out of the 100% of electricity sent to houses and businesses only about 50% of the electricity makes it there. It is lost do to heat because the atoms are not going in a straight line, the heat makes the atoms come in contact with each other and when those atoms...

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