The highly-illustrated text will serve as excellent introduction for students, with and without a physics background, to superconductivity. With a strong practical, experimental emphasis, it will provide readers with an overview of the topic preparing them for more advanced texts used in more advanced undergraduate and post-graduate courses.

The book will feature a series of practical, investigative, activities which can be used as tutor demonstrations or, more usefully, as student lab’ exercises. All of the activities have been designed and tested by the author and colleagues and are designed to be as low cost as possible in order to promote whole class use.

Contents:
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