J09 : Savours or Snake Oil? Testing Radiofrequency Radiation Reducing Cellular Phone Cases


Students Grace Kemper
School IND - Hillfield Strathallan College - Hamilton
Level Intermediate 9/10 - Grade 9
Group Group 2A - Engineering and Computing II
Abstract Interest was gained in this topic of radiation from the previous science fair experiment. It looked at the amount of RF radiation emitted from two different smart phone brands, the iPhone 6 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy S6. It was found that there was a great amount of RF radiation being emitted from these two phones and wanted to find a way to decrease it. Many brands of different cases that claimed to reduce the RF radiation were discovered and it was wanted to know how they actually worked. It was thought that the information gained from this experiment would be useful to people to better understand how much RF radiation reducing phone cases would help shield the user from the RF radiation being emitted.