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A 55.0-kg woman eats a 540 Calorie (540 kcal) jelly doughnut for breakfast.
(a) How many joules of energy are the equivalent of one jelly
doughnut?
(b) How many steps must the woman climb on a very tall stairway to
change the gravitational potential energy of the woman-Earth system
by a value equivalent to the food energy in one jelly doughnut?
Assume the height of a single stair is 17.2 cm.
(c) If the human body is only 25.0% efficient in converting
chemical potential energy to mechanical energy, how many steps must
the woman climb to work off her breakfast?
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