Increasing the Size of a Piece of Popcorn

Details Increasing the Size of a Piece of Popcorn Increasing the Size of a Piece of Popcorn

2004-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409424v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Latex document, 14 pages, 4 figures, 1 page of tables

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physa.2005.02.013

Popcorn is an extremely popular snack food in the world today. Thermodynamics can be used to analyze how popcorn is produced. By treating the popping mechanism of the corn as a thermodynamic expansion, a method of increasing the volume or size of a kernel of popcorn can be studied. By lowering the pressure surrounding the unpopped kernel, one can use a thermodynamic argument to show that the expanded volume of the kernel when it pops must increase. In this project, a variety of experiments are run to test the validity of this theory. The results show that there is a significant increase in the average kernel size when the pressure of the surroundings is reduced.

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