How Many Peanut Butter Sandwiches Does It Take to Fuel a Hulk?

They do superhero things, like jumping, punching, and shooting beams out of their eyes. These activities are similar to normal human activities. It takes a lot of energy to wake up in the morning. Energy is taken by walking around. It would take a human-powered helicopter for a single minute to run a mile. Food is the main source of energy. How much would a superhero need to eat to perform their high-energy moves if they got their energy from food?

In honor of the new Disney+ series, I'm going to focus on moves by the She-Hulk. The two of them are likely to get their energy from food. A recent clip from the series shows Bruce Banner telling She-Hulk that he can drink as much alcohol as he wants. That means that their energy comes from eating.

The food has energy.

The energy in food is measured. A serving of a candy bar has 200 calories. Some examples have exact values.

There is a difference between how physicists talk about physics and how nutritionists talk about nutrition. The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree is called a calor. That isn't the same as a food calories. The candy bar is 200 times the number of calories listed on the food label.

That isn't clear. Physicists don't like using these units for energy. Jutes are equivalent to the energy needed to push with a force of 1 newton over a distance of one meter. Lifting a book off the floor and putting it on a table takes a lot of energy. The number of calories in a food is equal to the number ofjoules.

I think it would be best if we made up our own unit of energy. The unit of energy is called the peanut-butter- and-jelly-sandwich unit of energy. The amount of energy you get from eating a sandwich is about 1.59 million joules. The energy cost of superhero moves can be calculated using this unit. It will be fun.

For nothing, energy is needed.

Energy is required to breathe, pump blood, and blink your eyes. The BMR is how much energy it takes. A mortal human could have up to 2,000 calories a day. A person can use up to 5 PBJs a day if they convert to my preferred energy unit. Your mileage might be different.

The Hulk and She-Hulk aren't normal-sized humans so they won't have normal B MRs. Let's figure out their weight and height.

Since I've looked at his dimensions before, I'm going to start with the Incredibles. He is about 2.5 meters tall. It's more difficult to find his mass since you can't directly see it. I can estimate his volume to get the mass if I assume he has the same density as a human.

Volume calculations for bodies are not trivial. If we take a normal human in the shape of a cylinder, we can estimate the volume. It's easy to calculate the volume with that.

There will be a relationship between L and r if you increase the height of the body but keep the shape the same. The volume can be written as follows:

The height, mass, and density of a normal human can be used to find the length-to-radius ratio. That's the length-to-radius ratio for a normal person.

Is it possible to have an extreme example. If you double the height of a human, but keep the shape the same, you will increase the volume by 8. Bigger people will be larger.

Let's figure out the mass of the green monster. He is also larger than a human. He would have a bigger ratio. At 1.5 times the normal human's value, I can approximate this value. His mass is equivalent to a human's with his height and density.

We are prepared for a calculation. There are online calculator that I can use. The daily resting energy consumption of the Hulk is 4,491 food calories. That is not terrible.

She-Hulk seems to be the same size as a normal human. The value of 2.2 meters is based on the picture of She-Hulk standing next to the Hulk. She has a mass of 136 kilogrammes. The BMR is calculated by using the same calculator.

These figures are only for the rate of metabolism, and not the amount of energy needed to do anything.

A lot of jumping.

She-Hulk is pushed off a cliff in this clip from the series. She's fine. She makes a smooth jump back up to the ground. How many sandwiches would it take to move?

The person will start and finish the jump with zero speed and an increase in height of some value. There is only one type of energy change that needs to be considered. This type of stored energy is caused by a mass interacting with the Earth. The change in energy can be calculated as follows.

G is the value of the field. This has a value of almost 10 newtons per kilogram. Since I have the mass of She-Hulk, I just need to estimate her change in vertical position as she jumps up from the bottom of the cliff It depends on how tall the cliff is, but I'm pretty sure it's not too high. It could be 10 meters or so. This is an energy requirement of over 20,000 joules. There is only a small amount of a peanut butter and Jelly sandwich. One jump is all it is.

The rocks are being thrown.

The trailer for the series shows the two characters throwing boulders. This move would take a lot of energy.

The calculation for jumping is very similar to this one. We need to use the mass of the boulder rather than the mass of She-Hulk. The rock doesn't just go up in a straight line. It has some vertical speed. At the highest point in the rock's trajectory it will have both potential and energy.

The energy associated with an object's movement is called kruin energy. This can be calculated using the following equation.

The mass of the rock, maximum height during the throw, and horizontal velocity are three things that I need to calculate the energy in this boulder toss. The mass is the first thing we need to discuss.

The rock is roughly spherical with a diameter of 1 meter. I can calculate the volume by assuming a spherical shape. I get a total mass of 1,361 kilograms when I use a rock density of 2,600 kilograms per square meter.

The maximum rock height is next. I think 6 meters seems reasonable, considering the scene in the trailer. It is possible to estimate how far the rock traveled horizontally and how long it took in the video. A horizontal speed of 25 meters per second is given.

The change in potential energy for the giant rock is 80,000 joules. The rock- throwing energy is 505,000 joules or 0.22PBJs. A few bites of a sandwich is all it takes to throw that rock.

In this scene, the Hulk and She-Hulk are tossing rocks. In this other clip, we see a man throwing a rock. He grabs a bigger one with a radius of about 2 meters and throws it so quickly that it starts to heat up the air around it. You don't see much thermal effects for objects unless they go faster than sound, which is around 343 meters per second. The calculation shows that the Hulk would need to eat 1,612 peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches to throw a rock.

A super lap.

The Hulk claps his hands a lot. This isn't a normal clap that you might use to signal your approval when your favorite sports team scores, or a gentle clap showing that you are following the social norm of clapping when appropriate at a performance, even if you don't want to. This is a type of explosion. It's such a powerful clap that it can knock over an enemy. How much energy will it take to teach this move to She-Hulk?

While they are training, we can see She-Hulk use the super clap and knock the other down. We have to decide if the super clap affects the object in its path or not. Is it a clap that affects the whole area? I decided to go with the second option. It will be a lot more enjoyable.

A half circle pattern would be created if this clap created an energy blast. Anything in a 180 degree field of view from She-Hulk will be blasted. As the blast wave expands, so does it. If the total amount of energy is constant, the energy will be spread out over a large area.

The following value is a function of distance from She-Hulk and is called the energy distribution intensity.

The total blast energy produced by She-Hulk is E 0 and the length of the circle is r. We want to know the value of E 0 so we can estimate how many sandwiches she needs to eat.

The value can be found by looking at how the man is thrown back. It looks like he moves back about 4 meters after he gets hit with the blast. The recoil speed would be eight meters per second. I know the mass of the Hulk and his change in energy, which is around 10,000 joules.

The super clap doesn't give the Hulk all the power he needs. He doesn't get a lot. The clap wave's length depends on where it is from. That is called that r s.

There is a relationship given by that.

The total energy of the super can be calculated if I just estimate values. The Hulk is 0.75 meters wide and She-Hulk is 4 meters away. I received that from a video measurement. A total clap energy of 168,000 joules or 0.1PBJs can be put into my calculation. That seems small, but remember, that's still a lot of energy for a single move.

The allowance is daily.

Let's figure out how much She-Hulk would need to eat each day. She needs to eat 6.8PBJs just to stay alive. If you include things like walking around, going up stairs, and talking, it would be closer to 14PBJs. If she gets in a fight, what would happen? She needs to eat more.

In a fight, she throws three rocks, jumps five times, and uses two claps. I'm assuming that she can throw the rocks like the Hulk did. Since she's still learning, let's say these rocks are 1 meter in diameter and travel at half the speed of sound. It would take 83 million joules to make 52.2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She wouldn't have to go to the grocery store a lot, but she would get bored.

She could mix it up. She could get the same amount of energy if she ate the same number of bananas. She might like carrots. The number of carrots is 794. What about Krispy Kreme doughnuts? It's just over 104. There are slices of Domino's cheese pizza. The number is around 87. A lot of butter. That's 1,323 cups of the vegetable. It is not a good idea to eat all of this stuff in a single day.

If you want to check the script, you can see it here.