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Size matters

Both bodies are at the same temperature, but due to their sizes, the maintainance of it is highly different. The 37°C (≈98°F) of the mouse requires it to produce much more heat per mass, as if its body fears getting cold. For the elephant, it's the contrary, the same temperature requires less heat per mass, and the body is in a struggle to avoid overheating.

Why does the size of the animal affect its heat regulation?

>!Heat production is proportional to the mass and volume, but heat escape is proportional to the surface area. The ratio between them determines how well an object can cool down. For two similar objects, the smaller an object the surface area to volume is bigger. In other words, the mouse has too much surface area that let heat escape and the elephant has too little area to let heat escape the body.!<

>Surface-area-to-volume ratio - Wikipedia!<

>Warm-blooded - Wikipedia!<

u/DotBeginning1420 — 15 days ago

The most special class?

Whenever you think or learn you use your brain. Neurology class is the only class the brain learns about itself.

u/DotBeginning1420 — 16 days ago
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Lesson was over. I went to my favorite restaurant

The primordial soup is not an actual soup, but a famous hypotehsis of the origin of life. >!It answers when, how, and in which conditions on earth inanimate material turned to prebiotic beings and eventually evolved to all livng beings today.!<

>!According to it there were carbon, hydrogen, water, vapour, ammonia, and organic material possibly with lightning strikes. The first ancient prebiotic molecules were probably amino acids and RNA.!<

u/DotBeginning1420 — 28 days ago

[Self] Which travels faster? Air molecule or a bullet?

(Is it the right way to do it?)

The higher the temperature the faster molecules travel. In fact temperature can be defined by how fast molecules move. It's called thermal velocity.

Assuming a bullet is shot at 500m/s - 1300m/s, at which temperature does the air move faster? For air, we need to account for it being a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen.

Here is the equation for the speed in 3D space: v = √(8(K_B T)/m).

k_B is Bolzmann constant

T is the temperature in Kelvin.

m is the mean mass of an air particle.

We are looking for a T that gives v = 1300m/s.

K_B = 1.380649 e^-23 K^-1 J
m = n1*m_N2 + n2*m_O2 = [0.78*(2*14) 0.21*(2*16)] * 1.672 e^-27 kg = 4.777 e^-26 kg

T = mv^2 / 8 K_B = (4.777 e^-26 [kg]) 1300^2 [m^2/s^2]/ 8 1.380649 e^-23 [K^-1 J] = 731 K = 458°C
For v =500 m/s, T = 108 K = -165°C.

Therefore air particles in room temperature on average are in the range but not as fast as the fastest bullets.

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