The most well known application of this theory is the use of a curve on a graph to represent the motion of an object, which could then be defined by a mathematical equation that would grant insight into the forces at work on the object. Further progress in mathematics was made by Oxford professor John Wallis.
The amount of time it takes for food to pass through your intestines depends on the type of food you have eaten, among other things. In general, it can take 24 to 44 hours from the time you eat food to the time it leaves your body as waste. The amount of food you eat and whether it is solid or liquid will affect how long it takes to pass from the stomach to the small intestine and from there to your colon.
While the food travels on its 20-foot trip through the small intestine, it is being broken down more and more by the intestineâs digestive juices until most of it is in liquid form. This liquid is then absorbed through the small intestineâs walls into your blood stream. Your blood stream takes the liquid to all parts of your body to feed its cells. The parts of food that your body hasnât digested and cannot use go into a fat, coiled 5-foot-long tube called the large intestine. There, water is absorbed from that remaining food and returned to the blood stream, and the undigested food leaves your body as waste. It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal!