Physics & How Things Work

How a Microwave Cooks

Name: How a Microwave Cooks
Duration: 80 s
Description: It doesn't heat the plate. It makes the WATER inside food dance — 2.4 billion times a second.

It doesn't heat the plate. It makes the WATER inside food dance — 2.4 billion times a second.

Thirty seconds. Soup boiling hot. Plate — cold. What is actually happening inside this box?

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