Thursday, August 15, 2019

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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