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What is the current flow through the body?

Imagine a situation in which a person accidentally touches an electrical socket with both hands. By modeling the arm and the chest to be a cylindrical tube with a total length L=2.0m, cross-sectional area A=10cm^2, and resistivity p=1.5ohm*m, you can calculate the current in amperes through the person when a potential difference of V=110V is applied across the two hands. Assume that the current flows only through the modeled cylindrical tube.
What is the current flow through the body?

I'd think that a PhDEE with such an impressive career would know the difference between resistance and resistivity. "Ohms per cubic centimeter" is a meaningless measurement, since that cubic centimeter can assume any shape, hence any resistance. If the figure (450) given by PhDEE is resistivity in ohm-cm, this is equivalent to 4.5 ohm-m, only a 3x difference from that given in the question, a not unheard-of variance.
Anyway, to calculate resistance R, multiply resistivity by length and divide by area.
R = 1.5*2/0.001 = 3000 ohms. I = V/R = 0.0367 A.

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