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The aorta carries blood away from the heart at a speed of about 40cm/s and has a radius of approximately 1.1 cm. The aorta brancheseventually into a large number of tiny capillaries that distributethe blood to the various body organs. In a capillary, the bloodspeed is approximately 0.007 cm/s, and the radius is about 6.0 10-4cm. Treat the blood as an incompressible fluid, and use these datato determine the approximate number of capillaries in the humanbody.
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Trinidad Tremblay
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