Suppose the flow rate of blood through a 1.9 × 10–6-m radius capillary is 3.65 × 10-9 cm3/s.
a.) What is the speed, in centimeters per second, of the blood flow? (This small speed allows time for diffusion of materials to and from the blood.)
b.) Assuming all the blood in the body passes through capillaries, with the given flow rate in each, how many of them must there be to carry a total flow of 90.0 cm3/s?
