I was reading a book where one section talked about microwave

>>9109263
Fuck no. Microwaves can superheat stuff because the shit you microwave stuff in does not have nucleation points. IE your coffee mug is so smooth that there is no place for bubbles to form. Also uniform heating

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2009/09/30/microwaves_arent_magic

Sounds like horseshit

>>9109263
No collisions in rotational? The fuck? Just imagine a room full of rotating water molecules and tell me how that could happen. More so translational is easier to access then rotational and so it'll be filled quickly even if rotational energy levels are filled first.

>>9109352
This is correct.

>>9109471
Why would there be collisions in rotational movement? If 2 spheres are spinning a foot away from each other neither will make contact until there is translation, but they keep spinning.

>>9109263
I don't know much about microwave heating in particular but that sounds like bullshit from a statistical mechanics point of view.

>>9109460
>>9109508
Psst... Hey Aristotle! Did you know that matter was actually made of tiny unbreakable things called ατομος?

>>9109499
How do doors open, my dude?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipartition_theorem. This is a classical statistical mechanics theorem but should be close enough at room temperatures. Besides it doesn't make sense at all intuitively that rotational modes get full of energy while translational energy is chilling.

If you're reading a book with such kind of claims without equations it's bullshit everytime

>>9109499
You seem to imply that without the microwave, i.e. rotation, they would be completely still, i.e. at absolute zero

>>9109352
>ceramic mugs are so smooth they have no nucleation points
If this is true, then how come when I pour coke into a mug, bubbles form?

>>9110990
> being this fucking stupid

>>9109263
>rotating molecules can't interact with a thermometer
>they can interact with food creating cancer

>>9110523
No but if the microwaves caused mostly rotational motion it would mean fewer collisions than conventional heating, not that there's no collisions or translational movement whatsoever.