Data on the tenebrionid beetle whose body mass is 3.3 g show that it can push a 35-g ball of dung at 6.5 cm/s at 27° C, 13 cm/s at 37° C, and 18 cm/s at 40° C. (a) How fast can it push dung at 41.5°...

Data on the tenebrionid beetle whose body mass is 3.3 g show that it can push a 35-g ball of dung at 6.5 cm/s at 27° C, 13 cm/s at 37° C, and 18 cm/s at 40° C.

(a) How fast can it push dung at 41.5° C? [B. Heinrich. The Hot-Blooded Insects (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).]

(b) Apply one or more of the six ideas in Table P-3, page xviii to this problem.