Lets Measure Speed of light using Chocolate 😅🍫
Need a microwave, ruler, bar of chocolate .
(Better to take a longer bar of chocolate )
Take the turntable out of the microwave. We don't want uniform heating of Chocolate . You need the chocolate to stay still whilst you heat it.
Put a plate upside down over the thing that rotates the turntable .
Now place the bar in the microwave and turn the microwave on .
It will take some 20 - 40 sec when chocolate will start melting in two or three places .
Now its time to take out chocolate and measure carefully the distance between one hot spot to another hot spot .
A hot spot is where the chocolate is starting to melt or is more melted than rest of the other portion .
Now the Calculation part
Measure the distance between two melted spots and get the half of the wavelength of the microwaves. Then multiply the distance by two to get a whole
wavelength.
Frequency : I got it from specifications of my oven used ie 2450 MHz
Speed of light : 2 x 6 x 10-2x 2450 x 106
= 2.9
x 108 m/sec
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