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Author: Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 18, Problem 63AP

An electric eel generates electric currents through its highly specialized Hunter’s organ, in which thousands of disk-shaped cells called electrocytes are lined up in series, very much in the same way batteries are lined up inside a flashlight. When activated, each electrocyte can maintain a potential difference of about 150 mV at a current of 1.0 A for about 2.0 ms. Suppose a grown electric eel has 4.0 × 103 electrocytes and can deliver up to 3.00 × 102 shocks in rapid series over about 1.0 s. (a) What maximum electrical power can an electric eel generate? (b) Approximately how much energy does it release in one shock? (c) How high would a mass of 1.0 kg have to be lifted so that its gravitational potential energy equals the energy released in 3.00 × 102 such shocks?

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