You overindulged on a delicious dessert, so you plan to work off the extra calor

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You overindulged on a delicious dessert, so you plan to work off the extra calories at the gym. To accomplish this, you decide to do a series of arm raises holding a 6.0 kg weight in one hand. The distance from your elbow to the weight is 35 cm, and in each arm raise you start with your arm horizontal and pivot it until it is vertical. Assume that the weight of your arm is small enough compared with the weight you are lifting that you can ignore it. As is typical, your muscles are 20% in converting the food energy they use up into mechanical energy, with the rest going into heat.

If your dessert contained 330 food calories, how many arm raises must you do to work off these calories?

Explanation / Answer

Work done each time on the mass = 5 . 9.8 . 0.35 = 17.15 J Total work done each time = 17.15 / 0.2 = 85.75 J 1 Food calorie = 4186 J Number of lifts needed = 4186 . 380 / 85.75 = 17,086 ( 17100 )

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