What is the specific heat capacity of the human body?
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The average specific heat capacity of a human body is approximately 3500 J/kgK
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You are talking about specific heat. According to the chart at the link below, it's a tie between Radon and Radium. They have the lowest specific heat.\n\nSpecific heat is defined to be the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of the substance by one kelvin. You are asking about the elements with the lowest specific heat. Gold and lead also have very low specific heats.
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maybe what your teacher is trying to say here is the body temperature. now search for that answer. it's your homework.
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water is a good substance in storing heat\nmeaning that it is comparatively uneasy to lose or gain temperature, keeping it rather constant\nalso, blood vessels will expand or contract to lose heat when its too hot, or direct blood to vital organs when cold
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Specific heat varies with changes of composition and temperature. The specific heat of a material can be calculated by hand or by using a process simulator.\n\nThe attached link can be used to obtain specific heat (and other properties) for a handful of pure components.\n\nBest wishes !
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hnmm.. Question of my interest..\n\nWell, as u know the temperature of human body is fix i.e. 37 degree celsius or 98.6 degree fahrenhiet. In hot weather, the temperature of human body starts rising. So, to maintain the temperature at normal level, body releases water and this water absorbs excessive heat from our body as water has a great ability to absorb heat.. Water comes out along with heat that we call sweating..\n\nSame is true for the other condition.. When it is not hot, people still sweat but usually fat ppl.. The reason for this Mr. Biophys is that when people do excessive amount of work, the carbohydrates in their body have already been utilized by excessive working. Now when they do more work, fats are utilized as a source of energy. Since, one gram of fats produces about 9000 calories of energy and its a large amount of heat for body to hold. So, the same process takes place to remove the heat from body i.e. sweating...\n\nGot it??\nHope this helps..\nAllah Hafiz
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Skin.\n\nIf you're talking about raw, physical size, then it's around everything else.  Largest!\n\nIf you're talking about weight, it accounts for about 15% of the total body mass, more than any other organ.  Largest!\n\nIf you're talking about surace area, it's about two square metres in size.  Largest!\n\nThough I should say that's just an AVERAGE human.  I seem to recall a case of a woman in Texas who had a sixty pound tumor in her gut.  Totally benign, but it just kept getting bigger and bigger.  She thought she was just gaining weight...
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Hydrogen has the highest known specific heat of 1.43 x 10^4  J/kg*K at a temperature of 25°C.
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since its for your project i'll try to be as brief as possible and provide as much info.\n\nDifferent parts of the body are at different temperatures. the skin temperature is lower than the liver temperature and the feet and hands may be colder than the abdomen. however 'body-temperature' usually means the temperature deep inside the body. the temperature varies during the day and there is no 'correct' body temperature. variations in the range of 35.8-37.7*C are normal.\n\nInternal heat:\nMany of the chemical reactions in cells release heat. the chief heat organs are the abdominal organs, the brain and contracting muscles.\n\nExternal:\nDirect heat from the sun absorbed by the skin, hot drinks and food also add heat to body.\nEvaporation from the skin and lungs takes place all the time and is a cause of heat loss. to a large extent, the heat lost from the body is balanced by the heat absorbed or produced.\n\ni hope this much is enough for you.
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The specific heat of water is 4.184 J/g C.\n\nSince water's density is 1 g/ mL, 500 mL of water will have a mass of 500 g.\n\nThe equation to calculate the joules of energy required is:\nheat = mass x specific heat x change in temperature\n\nenergy = 500 (4.184)(95-25)\nenergy = 146440 J or 146.44 kJ\n\nHope that helped.
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thermodynamics?  heat transfer?  physics?
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once is average for a heatlthy person
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It would depend on the amounts (mass) of the water.\n\nedit:\nThe specific heat of water is not 1 [artless_man], it is 1 calorie per gram degress celcius, the units make all the difference.  Notice the lower case c in calorie.\nA "better" specific heat of water, using metric units, is 4.186 J / (gram * degree celsius).\n\nHowever, for this problem, you dont even need to know the specifc heats since both substances are water.
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To conserve body heat and energy.
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Generally the most important is temperature. the Human body is most comfortable between 18 - 21 degrees (around this). This varies slightly depending on the temperature outside. Humidity. Another is light. Diffused light from the sun is more comfortable than direct sunlight as we do not like glare. \n\nFactors like these vary depending on what is happening within the building e.g a sports facility would need to be cooler because people get hotter exercising and it becomes more humid because of the moisture created by people.\n\nThese factors can be measured using items such as a thermometer, humidity gauge (don't know the name) and a light meter. \n\nThis is all I know about the subject.\nI hope it helps.
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Human beings lack body hair for a simple reason - we have the most efficient heat dissipation system of any mammal in the world! Human sweating is extremely efficient, since without hairs to trap the sweat on the body, the massive pouring of fluids through the skin's pores works not entirely like car air-conditioning. Humans can sweat more fluid per hour than any other mammal.\n\nHumans are amazing endurance runners. In a recent issue of Discover, the author noted that human beings can outrun any animal on Earth, if the pursuit lasts long enough - humans in good condition do not need to stop and take breaks because our heat dissipation system keeps our body temperature stabler than any other creature's. The ability to "run down" anything gave early humans an amazing survival advantage.\n\nThese adaptations appear to have appeared in Homo Erectus, about a million and a half years ago. Scientists were able to determine this timeline because of the amount of genetic divergence between the two living human species of body lice. Also, Homo Erectus is the first human to develop the skeleton of a fully modern and athletic bipedal human.
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specific heat Q = mc(t2-t1)\nput everything in SI units..\nthen \n\n40,000= 500/1000 * c(68-20)\n40000=0.5* 48*c \nhence c= 40000/24= 1666.67 joules/kg oC.