This question was given to us in class:
In his television series, "the Ring of Truth", MIT PhysicistPhillip Morrison provided a remarkable, yet simple, demonstrationof the size of molecules he attributed to Ben Franklin. He poured~1 ml of olive oil onto the surface of a small pond, and heobserved the size of the resulting "oil slick" by noting changes inthe surface waves on the pond (this size was ~200 m squared). Usingjust this information and reasonable values for the macroscopicphysical properties of olive oil, estimate the size and molecularweight of an "olive oil molecule". Consider both spherical andcylindrical (with say a 10:1 aspect ratio) molecular models.
Please help! We are discussing relativity in class currently, and Ihave no idea how to apply that to this question?