How many grams of carbohydrate does a person of mass 74 kg need to metabolize to climb

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How many grams of carbohydrate does a person of mass 74 kg need to metabolize to climb five flights of stairs (15 m height increase)? Each gram of carbohydrate provides 17.6 kJ of energy. Assume 10.0% efficiency-that is, 10.0% of the available chemical energy in the carbohydrate is converted to mechanical energy. What happens to the other 90% of the energy?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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