A 40g mouse is taking about 105 breaths per minute when relaxed. A human (1000 t

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A 40g mouse is taking about 105 breaths per minute when relaxed. A human (1000 times bigger) takes about 11 breaths per minute. Calculate the expected breathing rate of the mouse, based on your breathing rate and your relative sizes. Consider the lung volume has been found to scale isometrically with the body size. What’s the expected mouse rate, based on your equation and the values above? Define terms and assumptions. A 40g mouse is taking about 105 breaths per minute when relaxed. A human (1000 times bigger) takes about 11 breaths per minute. Calculate the expected breathing rate of the mouse, based on your breathing rate and your relative sizes. Consider the lung volume has been found to scale isometrically with the body size. What’s the expected mouse rate, based on your equation and the values above? Define terms and assumptions.

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Say for example, the lungs of a human is 1000 times larger than that of a mouse.

Then isometrically the capacity of the lungs should be (1000)^(1/3) times

That is 10 times

The expected capacity must be 110 times per min

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or shape occupies or contains.

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