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ISBN: 9780133969290

Author: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 17, Problem 17.83P

BIO Shivering. Shivering is your body’s way of generating heat to restore its internal temperature to the normal 37°C, and it produces approximately 290 W of heat power per square meter of body area. A 68-kg, 1.78-m-tall woman has approximately 1.8 m² of surface area. How long would this woman have to shiver to raise her body temperature by 1.0 C°, assuming that the body loses none of this heat? The body’s specific heat capacity is about 3500 J/kg · K.

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