We return to the 60. kg hiker of P4.34, who is climbing the 828 m tall Burj

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We return to the 60. kg hiker of P4.34, who is climbing the 828 m tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai. If the efficiency of converting the energy content of the bars into the work of climbing is 25%, the remaining 75% of the energy released through metabolism is heat released to her body. She eats two energy bars and a single bar produces 1.08 × 103 kJ of energy upon metabolizing. Assume that the heat capacity of her body is equal to that for water. Calculate her temperature at the top of the structure. Is your result reasonable? Can you think of a mechanism by which her body might release energy to avoid a temperature increase? 

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Physical Chemistry

ISBN: 978-0321812001

3rd edition

Authors: Thomas Engel, Philip Reid

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