Physics inside a microwave oven.

May 24, 2002 7:42 PM

Physics inside a microwave oven. I came across this informative link while looking up some physics information. I thought this short movie of a grape in a microwave was amazing. My microwave has never done anything as cool as this.
posted by jragon (11 comments total)

Oh man. Reading this page was a bad idea, my roomates are gonna hate me next semester....

*evil laughter*
posted by atom128 at 7:59 PM on May 24, 2002

You're going to put them in the microwave, aren't you?
posted by Doug at 10:09 PM on May 24, 2002

This is so cool. I've always wondered what would happen if I put weird stuff in a microwave but never had the courage (stupidity?) to do it! What I really wanted to know what happens if you microwave an egg...(Quicktime file)
posted by Lynsey at 10:36 PM on May 24, 2002

You can also use your microwave to demonstrate the speed of light
posted by quercus at 7:53 AM on May 25, 2002

Step 2 of making Kraft Easy Mac is: microwave macaroni in water for 3-1/2 to 4 minutes. When you open the oven, you find that each little piece of macaroni is standing up straight, as if at attention!
posted by Junker George at 1:38 PM on May 25, 2002

i once put a frozen kebab inside a microwave. u should have seen what it did to my insides!
posted by monkeyJuice at 2:04 PM on May 25, 2002

someone in my dorm one night was too drunk to remember the 2nd step of making easy mac...
standing outside at 4 am on a friday morning was not a fun college experience... i heard he got what he deserved from his hallmates...
posted by sixtwenty3dc at 3:49 PM on May 25, 2002

If you put one of those silvery reflecto-browning thingys on a empty ceramic plate in an old microwave oven, the plate will shatter. Neat, huh?

Silver stream, silvery scream
Oooooh, impossible concentration.
posted by mark13 at 4:11 PM on May 25, 2002

Metallic KO! (Forgive me, Iggy.)
posted by Junker George at 4:47 PM on May 25, 2002

I once microvaved easy mac without water too. Green smoke just poured out, until I smelled something, and looked at the microwave. The hall just stank for about 6 or seven doors down, and our room was awful.
posted by stoneegg21 at 5:27 PM on May 25, 2002

I weep for our generation.
posted by Junker George at 7:10 PM on May 25, 2002