Insects do not have lungs as we do, nor do they breathe through their mouths. Instead, they

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Insects do not have lungs as we do, nor do they breathe through their mouths. Instead, they have a system of tiny tubes, called tracheae, through which oxygen diff uses into their bodies. The tracheae begin at the surface of an insect's body and penetrate into the interior. Suppose that a trachea is 1.9 mm long with a cross-sectional area of 2.1 × 1029 m2. The concentration of oxygen in the air outside the insect is 0.28 kg/m3, and the diffusion constant is 1.1 × 10-5 m2/s. If the mass per second of oxygen diff using through a trachea is 1.7 × 10-12 kg/s, find the oxygen concentration at the interior end of the tube.
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Physics

ISBN: 978-1118486894

10th edition

Authors: David Young, Shane Stadler

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