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Chapter 11 Problem 58

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Overall, 80% of the energy used by the body must be eliminated as excess thermal energy and needs to be dissipated. The mechanisms of elimination are radiation, evaporation of sweat (2 430 kJ/kg), evaporation from the lungs (38 kJ/h), conduction, and convection. A person working out in a gym has a metabolic rate of 2 500 kJ/h. His body temperature is 37C, and the outside temperature 24C. Assume the skin has an area of 2.0 m2 and emissivity of 0.97. (a) At what rate is his excess thermal energy dissipated by radiation? (b) If he eliminates 0.40 kg of perspiration during that hour, at what rate is thermal energy dissipated by evaporation of sweat? (c) At what rate is energy eliminated by evaporation from the lungs? (d) At what rate must the remaining excess energy be eliminated through conduction and convection?

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Title College Physics 9 
Author Serway Vuille
ISBN 9780840062062

Overall, 80% of the energy used by the body must be

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