Wednesday, June 30, 2010

A question for bio-physicists

As water weighs about 1kg per litre, how much does my weight increase if I drink 3 litres a day?

If I expel about 750ml, how much does my weight go down?

If, over the last 3 days, I've drunk 9 litres of water and expelled 3; why has my weight dropped by over a kilo?

Is simple perspiration the answer? Seems like a lot of sweat!

Cheers.

4 comments:

filmrruss said...

Does this mean to say that you're measuring your pee?

Steve said...

Hope, just estimation. Very rough, but the delta between in and out is quite large.

Jon said...

You'd need to hertmetically seal your environment to catch all ouputs. But simply weight loss will be co2, water (as sweat, evaporation from lungs and wee) and poo.

Unknown said...

Try breathing on a mirror Steve - there's a lot of water vapour expelled every time you breathe out. Don't worry, you don't sweat THAT much!

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