There are numerous methods to estimate the temperature of substances. Some say it is possible to estimate the temperature of air in degrees Fahrenheit by counting the number of chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds, then adding that number to 37.Consider a new temperature scale based on the rate that crickets chirp. Assume that the temperature in this scale is equal to the number of times a cricket chirps per minute and that the temperature on this scale is reported as °X.
(a) Derive an expression that relates temperature in degrees Fahrenheit (T°F)to degrees Cricket (T°X).
(b) Given that the heat capacity of blood at body temperature is 1.87J/(g.°F),what is the heat capacity of blood at body temperature in J/(g.°X)?
(c)The heat capacity of blood as a function of temperature is given by:
Derive an equation for the heat capacity of blood that uses temperature in °X and gives the heat capacity in J/(g.°X). In other words, determine what the numerical values are for the constants a and b in the following equation:
(d)To check that your answer in part (c) is correct, calculate the heat capacity of blood at 98.6°F using both equations and compare the results. Do the results of your calculations make sense?
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