(a) If the jogger in the preceding problem were not able to get rid of the excess...

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(a) If the jogger in the preceding problem were not able to get rid of the excess heat, by how much would his body temperature increase above the normal 37°C in a half hour of jogging? The specific heat for a human is about 3500 J/kg ‧ K.

(b) How high a fever (in °F) would this temperature increase be equivalent to? Is the increase large enough to be of concern? (Recall that normal body temperature is 98.6°F.)

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University Physics with Modern Physics

ISBN: 978-0321696861

13th edition

Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, A. Lewis Ford

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