How many Calories are required to raise the temp of a can of diet cola from refrigerator temp to body temp?
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How many Calories (note capital C) are required to raise the temperature of a can of diet cola (12 fluid ounces) from refrigerator temperature to body temperature? What percentage of the energy (Calories) in the can of diet cola is required to do this? Assume, for the moment, that the diet cola has the same thermal properties as pure water. (Hint: A nutritional Calorie, the unit we see on cereal boxes, equals 1,000 of these calories. A gram is about 10 drops of seawater.)
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How many Calories (note capital C) are required to raise the temperature of a can of diet cola (12 fluid ounces) from refrigerator temperature to body temperature? What percentage of the energy (Calories) in the can of diet cola is required to do this? Assume, for the moment, that the diet cola has the same thermal properties as pure water. (Hint: A nutritional Calorie, the unit we see on cereal boxes, equals 1,000 of these calories. A gram is about 10 drops of seawater.)
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To raise the temperature of 1 grams of water by one degree Celsius, you need one calory.
To raise the temperature of 330 grams by (36-4=32) degrees, you will need 1*330*32=105 60 calories = 10.56 kilocalories