Name: Best Spot in the Microwave? - Smarter Every Day 6
Uploaded: 2020-03-26T02:35:38.000Z
Duration: 2 min 45 s
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Okay, it's me, Destin. I am here with Mike Simons at the National Electronics Museum,

and he's going to show us something that we interact with every day

that was developed during the Second World war for radar equipment.

What we have here is just a standard, off the shelf microwave oven

You'll notice that you can't open up the door and we've disabled the controls,

and it's got a separate switch over here on the side.

is how the microwave beam travels inside the cavity of the oven.

We've taken a sheet of plastic and we've embedded Christmas bulbs into it,

and when I power this thing up it's gonna spin, because it's on the carousel,

what that is is the beam of microwave energy

that travels through the inside of your oven.

Okay, so what you see here is that those...

The reason that you have a carousel inside your microwave oven

is because that beam always travels throught the same path.

It's just bouncing around inside of there.

if you put your cup of coffee in the center of the oven it might not heat up correctly,

because that carousel allows your cup of coffee

to travel through different portions of that beam,

to eliminate some of the heat that's generated by those bulbs.

And we've also lowered the power on this,

But this is definately a "do not try this at home".

But you can come to the National Electronics Museum and check it out.

(Destin) Awesome. So what is the best way to heat up my coffee in the morning?

- Uhm... probably a tea kettle on your stove. [Destin laughs]

So do you get more nerds, geeks or dorks visiting you here,

- You know what, we've debated about what's the difference between all three of those,

and you know what, I think we get all three but I can't tell the difference.

So if you get a chance, come up to Baltimore

and go to the National Electronics Museum. You'll learn something.

I now know to put my food on the edge of the carousel

when I'm heating something up in the microwave, is that correct?

(Mike) Not in the middle. - That's right.

So come up and visit these geniuses if you're a dork, geek, nerd,

or anybody that just wants to learn more and be smarter every day.

...and where your relative motion is going so you can compensate for it,

but chickens are really good at this so...

I'll show you. Watch his head stay totally stationary

Captioning in different languages welcome. Please contact Destin if you can help.

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Best Spot in the Microwave? - Smarter Every Day 6

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