Shivering. Shivering is your bodys way of generating heat

Chapter 17, Problem 17.83

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Shivering. Shivering is your bodys way of generating heat to restore its internal temperature to the normal 37C, and it produces approximately 290 W of heat power per square meter of body area. A 68-kg, 1.78-m-tall woman has approximately 1.8 m2 of surface area. How long would this woman have to shiver to raise her body temperature by 1.0 C, assuming that the body loses none of this heat? The bodys specific heat capacity is about 3500 J>kg # K

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