Work done expressed in nutritional calories


Bicyclists in the Tour de France do enormous amounts of work during a race. For example, the average power per kilogram generated by Lance Armstrong (m = 75.0 kg) is 6.50 W per kilogram of his body mass.

(a) How much work does he do during a 100 km race in which his average speed is 12.0 m/s? Often, the work done is expressed in nutritional Calories rather than in joules. Express the work done in part (a) in terms of nutritional Calories, noting that 1 joule = 2.389 times 10-4 nutritional Calories.

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