A 65.0-kg mountain climber just ate a Johnny Rocket's bacon-cheddar-double-burger meal along with two peanut butter milkshakes, which have 5810 Calories (5810 kilocalories). Assume she can convert these calories into energy with 100% efficiency and use the fact that 1 kcal = 4186 J. Calculate how many times she could climb up Mt. Everest – the world’s tallest mountain. The height of Mt. Everest is 8840 m

A 65.0-kg mountain climber just ate a Johnny Rocket's bacon-cheddar-double-burger meal along with two peanut butter milkshakes, which have 5810 Calories (5810 kilocalories). Assume she can convert these calories into energy with 100% efficiency and use the fact that 1 kcal = 4186 J. Calculate how many times she could climb up Mt. Everest – the world’s tallest mountain. The height of Mt. Everest is 8840 m

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Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

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Chapter11: Energy In Thermal Processes

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