From a00be6e38193f826f1d8c6551a91b55f10b583d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Moore Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:46:14 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] possible to-do --- food_energy.tex | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/food_energy.tex b/food_energy.tex index 5c33210..8ba8754 100644 --- a/food_energy.tex +++ b/food_energy.tex @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ A proto-college-student at Winona's China King Buffet, dreaming about visiting t \subsection{Converting food into body heat} Planning to save money, one college student decides to go to an all-you-can-eat buffet each day at 11am, eg figure \ref{buffet}. If he brings homework and stretches the meal out for a few hours he can get all $3000kcals$ with only one bill. Food is fuel for the human body -- could too much fuel make his body feel sick? If his body burned all this food at once, how much warmer would he get? Useful information: the student has a mass of $80kg$ and is made mostly of water. A Calorie heats $1 kg$ of water $1^{\circ}C$. +% per Jane Jackson, maybe mention that 3000 Calories/day isn't necessarily healthy? Eg Balanced diet? Here's a possible answer: equate food energy with calorimetric heating and assume human bodies have the same heat capacity as water, about $1\frac{kcal}{kg\cdot\degC}$. This allows us to calculate the body's temperature increase.