per trede is ongeveer 0.17 cal. dus voor de 18 treden = 3.06 cal … je moet al een bol vet zijn om aan de 180 te komen.
And 5 times more then pushing the elevator button!
Fine, I’ll take the elevator 5 times next time.
180 calories, not 180 kilo calories (kcal). Most posters here seem to be oblivious to physical units.
It includes dragging your luggage behind you
Surly? What even is that?
Well if you aplly basic physics to it…
Given variables:
> 18 steps=180 cal
Conversion:
> 1 step = 18 cal
> 1 cal = 4,184 J
> 1 step = 75,312 J
Staircase standards:
>”With regard to the standard height of a staircase riser, the measurement is often #between 6-1/4 and 7-7/8 inches#”…
> 1 inch = 0,0254 m
> 6-1/4 inches = 0,15875 m
> 7-7/8 inches = 0,200025 m
> average step height in meters: 0,1793875 m
Apply the formula for potential energy:
> U [J]=mgh [kg×m^(2)/s^(2)] <=> m=U/g×h
> m = [75,312 (J per step)] / [9.81 m/s^(2) × 0,1793875 (m per step)]
> m = 42,795982 kg
…I’d say its pretty possible. For reference, if a 100 kg person would take the stairs to go just 1 meter higher than his starting point it would cost him 981 Joules in energy (=234 cal). To burn of 180 cal, he would have to climb to a height of 0,767706422 meters in reference from where he started.
Calories, not kcal, so it MIGHT be correct.
Depends on so many factors.
But let´s just say hotels are not the best source for science.
Calories, not kilo-calories. Just like you walked a few meters, not a few kilometers.
The numbers you can find on the internet for climbing a flight of stairs are 1,50 to 2 kcal. So let’s assume 1,80 for easy calculations. 1,80 kcal = 1800 cal, not 180. So it’s wrong for starters, and there’s an extra pedantry bonus for using calories, knowing full well that outside the lab, people say cal when they mean kcal.
I’m taking the elevator, 180 cal isn’t worth is, I’d need to go up 5 flights of stairs to burn off almost one kcal, that just doesn’t make any sense. Because it’s not true. Even 1,80 kcal for one flight is pretty disappointing, I guess.
In the us they don’t use the metric system so kcal are just cal there.
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Probably depends on your weight?
1kcal is 1000 calories
per trede is ongeveer 0.17 cal. dus voor de 18 treden = 3.06 cal … je moet al een bol vet zijn om aan de 180 te komen.
And 5 times more then pushing the elevator button!
Fine, I’ll take the elevator 5 times next time.
180 calories, not 180 kilo calories (kcal). Most posters here seem to be oblivious to physical units.
It includes dragging your luggage behind you
Surly? What even is that?
Well if you aplly basic physics to it…
Given variables:
> 18 steps=180 cal
Conversion:
> 1 step = 18 cal
> 1 cal = 4,184 J
> 1 step = 75,312 J
Staircase standards:
>”With regard to the standard height of a staircase riser, the measurement is often #between 6-1/4 and 7-7/8 inches#”…
> 1 inch = 0,0254 m
> 6-1/4 inches = 0,15875 m
> 7-7/8 inches = 0,200025 m
> average step height in meters: 0,1793875 m
Apply the formula for potential energy:
> U [J]=mgh [kg×m^(2)/s^(2)] <=> m=U/g×h
> m = [75,312 (J per step)] / [9.81 m/s^(2) × 0,1793875 (m per step)]
> m = 42,795982 kg
…I’d say its pretty possible. For reference, if a 100 kg person would take the stairs to go just 1 meter higher than his starting point it would cost him 981 Joules in energy (=234 cal). To burn of 180 cal, he would have to climb to a height of 0,767706422 meters in reference from where he started.
Calories, not kcal, so it MIGHT be correct.
Depends on so many factors.
But let´s just say hotels are not the best source for science.
Calories, not kilo-calories. Just like you walked a few meters, not a few kilometers.
The numbers you can find on the internet for climbing a flight of stairs are 1,50 to 2 kcal. So let’s assume 1,80 for easy calculations. 1,80 kcal = 1800 cal, not 180. So it’s wrong for starters, and there’s an extra pedantry bonus for using calories, knowing full well that outside the lab, people say cal when they mean kcal.
I’m taking the elevator, 180 cal isn’t worth is, I’d need to go up 5 flights of stairs to burn off almost one kcal, that just doesn’t make any sense. Because it’s not true. Even 1,80 kcal for one flight is pretty disappointing, I guess.
In the us they don’t use the metric system so kcal are just cal there.