P5_3 Whats cookin' good lookin'

Authors

  • Billy Peacock University of Leicester
  • Alfred Hopkinson University of Leicester
  • Jack Weston University of Leicester
  • Matt Logan University of Leicester
  • Archie Page University of Leicester

Abstract

Using magnifying glasses to set things on fire is an age-old pastime of curious children, we investigate in this paper whether it is possible to take this act to the extreme of focusing the Sun's power to cook an adult human. It was found that it is indeed possible with a suitably large magnifying glass of radius 2.4m that is held over a person for 1 hour.

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Published

11/28/2019

How to Cite

Peacock, B., Hopkinson, A., Weston, J., Logan, M., & Page, A. (2019). P5_3 Whats cookin’ good lookin’. Physics Special Topics, 18(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/3299

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2019): Physics Special Topics

Section

Articles