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Speed and Power from the energy content of one M&M candy
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[QUOTE="Simon Bridge, post: 5584899, member: 367532"] A detailed calculation would require information about your metabolism. More general - you can look up the rate energy gets burned by "a human" in different activities ... this will tell you how long the energy of 1m&M would last ... however, not all the food you eat goes into the specific work you want to do, so a lot depends on how energy is distributed in your body. Your body also has a top speed based on it's mechanics and the environment you run in ... you can imagine your body being like running a large ship, an oceanliner or a capital ship like a destroyer or cruiser. There are lots of places the energy running bits of the ship can come from, and lots of places for it to be used. In extremis, energy can be diverted from some system to run others ... but it does not matter how much energy you put into just pushing the ship through the water, there is a max acceleration and a max speed that is possible. If you eat a very great deal of m&ms - it won't make you go faster unless you are already starved (and then, you'd have to wait a bit to recover). [/QUOTE]
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