The height of stairs a 60 kg student would have to run in order to burn off 1 Calorie of food energy will be 7.1 meters.
<h3>What is potential energy?</h3>
The potential energy is due to the virtue of the position and the height. The unit for the potential energy is the joule.
Given data;
Mass of student,m = 60 kg
Energy,E = 4190 J
Height of stairs,h=?
The potential energy is mainly dependent upon the height of the object. The potential energy is found as;
Potential energy = mgh
E=mgh
h=E/mg
h= 4190 J / (60 kg× 9.81 m/s²)
h = 7.1 metre
Hence the height of the stairs will be 7.1 meters.
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