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 you move your hand at either 1858 kmph or 1177 mph, assuming you don’t die in the process, you can slap a chicken so hard that you can cook it!!!!

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