On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:57:14PM -0700, Chad Cooper wrote: > > > > About 120 Watts. ((2,500 Calories/day) * (4186 > > Joules/Calorie) / (86,400 > > sec/day) = 121.1 Joules/sec, a calculation I perform on the > > board every > > time we start talking about energy in various forms, since to > > most people > > today, a "Calorie" is simply a measure of how much fatter you > > get by eating > > something rather than the amount of heat necessary to raise > > the temperature > > of one kilogram of water 1�C.) > > Hold on. I remember from Physics 101 that a food calorie is different than a > "Calorie" or CAL that we measured with a home made calorimeter(heat bomb?). > Is not a food calorie really a Kilocalorie - or is it the other way around? > Nerd From Hell
Yes. That's why he used 4186 Joules/Calorie instead of 4.186 J/calorie. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
