Intermediate Physics Snactivities

Popular food or snack based physics activities are often not geared towards the advanced high school or college level. In this talk I will introduce several intermediate snack-based physics activities suitable for physics courses that utilize integral and differential calculus, and at the algebra level. These intermediate physics snactivities are designed to use common household materials to explore physics topics that range from thermodynamics, decay laws, elasticity and other food-based physics applications. These intermediate physics snactivities can be used as laboratory or in-class exercises and, in many cases, provide a snacking opportunity during a physics lesson! Topics will include marshmallow loaded pasta cantilevers, donut decay laws and others.