Re: [Phys-l] Inductive cooking

[chuck britton <britton@ncssm.edu>]

Back in the late '50's / early '60's there was a traveling science  
show (Bob Brown's Science Circus?) that included induction cooking.  
He used an aluminum pan that had to be clamped down to the cooking  
surface. When the clamp was released - the pan levitated ! ! ! ! !

What ever happened to these mind expanding/boggling performances.

(That's a rhetorical question - video games have replaced them in the  
impressionable minds of today's youth.)



On Apr 5, 2009, at Apr 5(Sun) 9:10 , John Denker wrote:

> Don't be too hard on yourself if your physics intuition said that
> induction heating should be possible for non-ferromagnetic materials.
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_heating
>
>
> On 04/05/2009 04:21 PM, curtis osterhoudt wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_cooker
>
> OK, but that's not the whole story.
>
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