How Can Cheese Slices Help Us Find The Speed Of Light?

Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie

BBC

Education

4.8 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Professional breakdancer and Physics teacher Mr Ceeraz invites Greg and Bella to an end-of-term cheese-but-no-wine party, as they attempt to find the speed of light using cheese slices and a microwave.

Physics fanatic Mr Ceeraz promises that his lessons are never dull as he injects plenty of puns, amazing visual aids and lots of dancing to help his students get to grips with complex subjects - like the speed of light and the electromagnetic spectrum. In today's episode, Mr Ceeraz will play a game with Greg and Bella all about speed which will help them understand just how fast the speed of light is. He'll crack out the cheese strings to explore the structure of waves, share his actions to the legendary Electromagnetic Spectrum song from YouTube and discuss the different waves that make up the spectrum.

Plus, he'll introduce Greg to a website which shows you how far a radio broadcast has travelled into space (Greg's first show is REALLY far away!) and share an amazing do-it-yourself experiment using cheese slices and your kitchen's microwave to help anyone find the speed of light.

Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question,
0:08.0	How can Cheese Slices help us find the speed of light?
0:11.0	I'm Bella Mackey.
0:12.0	And I'm Greg James James the world's biggest
0:14.0	cheese lover we even had cheese at the wedding so basically a cheesecake no we had a
0:18.3	cheese wedding cake it was just cheese tears and tears of cheese. And that's what I cry every night before I go to bed.
0:26.8	Okay. This is a teach me lesson the podcast where we invite brilliant teachers from across the UK to teach us their favorite lesson.
0:40.0	And it's our last lesson of term too.
0:43.2	And we are finishing with a bang.
0:45.0	A big bang.
0:47.0	Oh.
0:48.0	Because of...
0:49.0	Not everything's an opportunity to make puns.
0:51.0	I actually think that's a good that's a really good
0:54.0	pun I think it's basic it's basic I mean he'll have heard it so many times anyway
0:59.0	it's our last lesson of the series which you know is sad we get it but it's not too sad because we are
1:04.2	coming back for a third series at some point in the future.
1:08.8	So last their term did you do any pranks at school?
1:13.2	Did you, what was going on?
1:14.5	Yeah, the classic, you know, people sort of putting cellophane
1:17.7	over the toilets, you know, people egging each other or whatever.
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