if a person is sitting in a moving car, are they using stored energy, even though they are not using their muscles. besides the usual breathing and living stuff?
2006-11-01 13:17:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Your body has what's called a basal metabolic rate. It's what keeps all your cells supplied with blood, ahd what maintains your core body temperature at 98.6ºF. It works out to be about 80 calories per hour, which must come from stored glycogen or fat.
Of course, the moving car is consuming stored gasoline energy.
2006-11-01 15:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sitting there you are using a few calories breathing and thinking and so on. Those calories were from food and came in as stored energy.You are also keeping yourself warm and sitting up.
2006-11-01 13:39:53 · answer #2 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some muscles must be used to keep yourself upright.
2006-11-01 18:42:56 · answer #3 · answered by futureastronaut1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
person is using potential energy.
2006-11-01 19:21:11 · answer #4 · answered by shashim.saurabh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋