Without The Hot Air Analysis

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In chapter 6 of Without The Hot Air, what is being discussed is how much energy is consumed in terms of food or drinks. For example: a tennis player has taken 1.00 kg of water that has been evaporated through perspiration and done 1.00 x 10^6 J of work in a game. Applying knowledge learnt from PHYS 151, I can determine the internal energy change of the player and the minimum nutrition calories needed to restore his energy level. The first law of thermodynamics states that total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another, but it can neither be created or destroyed. For the example, this means that the change of internal energy of the player is equal to the heat transferred to the system less

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