Question: Consider the conditions of Example 3.12, except that the person is now exercising (in the air environment), which increases the metabolic heat generation rate by

Consider the conditions of Example 3.12, except that the person is now exercising (in the air environment), which increases the metabolic heat generation rate by a factor of eight, to 5600 W/m3. At what rate would the person have to perspire (in liters/s) to maintain the same skin temperature as in that example?

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