(a) By how much would the body temperature of the bicyclist in the preceding problem increase in...

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(a) By how much would the body temperature of the bicyclist in the preceding problem increase in an hour if he were unable to get rid of the excess heat?

(b) Is this temperature increase large enough to be serious? To find out, how high a fever would it be equivalent to, in °F? (Recall that the normal internal body temperature is 98.6°F and the specific heat of the body is 3480 J/g ‧ Co.)

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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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