Question: (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

(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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