How Hard Do You Have to Slap A Piece of Chicken to Cook It?
How Hard Do You Have to Slap A Piece of Chicken to Cook It? I don’t think this question can answer by looking at how hard a piece of chicken must slap, but how fast to slap it? To solve this, let two assumptions be made: The law of conservation of momentum and a total elastic collision where all energy is transferred to the chicken from kinetic to thermal energy. Let us take the following into consideration: Specific heat capacity of chicken: 1.77 kJ/kg K = 1770 J/kg K Mass of Chicken = 1 kg Mass of an average hand (male): 0.65 kg Standard temperature: 25 C Internal Temperature to Cook a Chicken: 74 C Now, with all the variables in hand, the answer to the question can be found. (0.5) (Mass hand ) (speed squared) = (Mass Chicken ) (Specific heat Capacity Chicken ) (Change in Temperature) Speed squared = [(1) (1770) (74-25)]/ [(0.5) (0.65)] Speed = 516 m/s Or Speed = 1857.6 kmph or Speed = 1176.63 mph So, theoretically, if yo...