Microwave ovens are able to deliver more energy to food during cooking than conventional ovens, so microwave ovens can cook food faster. For the following, imagine you are cooking a turkey in a conventional oven at 325°F.

(a) What would you have to do in order to increase the amount of power being delivered to the turkey with the conventional oven?

(b) Would this cook the turkey faster? Why do we not cook turkeys that way?

(c) Why are microwave ovens able to deliver so much energy to food, while conventional ovens cannot?

(to answer parts (b) and (c), you have to know that the energy from a photon is absorbed by an object over a layer about one wavelength thick)