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Cosmic chocolate

Explore the universe in your microwave. Measure the speed of light with chocolate. To find out how this works visit open2.net at http://www.open2.net/scienc... Check out Science courses at the OU ...  
 
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amesguy515 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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29 billion
PiDude111 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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This is awesome! Great experiment!
AnubusStar (1 month ago) Show Hide
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The simplest things that you'd never expect to teach you something... That's pretty cool.
CapnDangerbeard (1 month ago) Show Hide
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This chocolate just blew Einsteins ghost up.
fuman5 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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wtf, seriously.
Digitalstorm007 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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How does this measure the speed of light? You simply took a number. 6cm and doubled it, then multiplied it by the frequency of the microwave. Could i take a bar of chocolate, stick toothpicks anywhere in it, measure the distance and multiply that by 2. Then multiply that number by the frequency? What does the chocolate have anything to do with this measurement?
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The melted places in the chocolate are evidence of standing waves in the microwave oven. The microwaves being produced by the oven form a pattern that has specific high and low points based on the wavelength of the microwave radiation.
Using the wavelength and the frequency, one can calculate the speed of an electromagnetic wave (like light or microwaves)... v = (lambda)(f).
aleric111 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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they measured the points at which the chocolate was not solid, the points where it was melted. they didnt choose a random number. apparently you werent listening you stupid retard
CrashPlague (1 month ago) Show Hide
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"digitalstorm", go back to school.

:)
Ainulph (1 month ago) Show Hide
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No, any Mhz microwave theoretical or not will give you the approximately the speed of light. I'm guessing that you need a bigger block of chocolate however :)

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