You company is designing a battery-based backup power source, and your job is to assess its safety. You know that under damp or sweaty conditions, the resistance between two points of unbroken skin on the human body can be as low as 500 Ω. Your product uses a 72-V battery whose internal resistance is 100 ft. Is it capable of passing a fatal 100 mA (Table 24.3) through a damp human body?
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