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House & Home Physics

Microwave Cavity Standing Wave

E(x,y) = sin(mπx/a)·sin(nπy/b)·cos ωt @ 2.45 GHz
Microwave Cavity Standing Wave

A microwave oven is a resonant cavity: the 2.45 GHz field forms standing-wave hot and cold spots — which is exactly why the food spins on a turntable.

Computed & rendered in pure C# on the frozen OnlyCSharp 1.8 library — animation baked to GIF with the library's own Gif encoder (no GPU, no ffmpeg, no external packages).