A muscle contraction is brought about by the release of calcium ions from storage vacuoles, where the calcium concentration is 0.700 mg/mL, into the cell's cytoplasm, where its concentration is 0.100 mg/mL.
a. What is the electrical potential between the vacuole and the cytoplasm?
b. If 1.00 mg of calcium ions is released in a contraction, how much adenosine triphosphate (ATP) must be hydrolyzed from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) according to the reaction ATP+ water → ADP+P+29:3 MJ/kgmole to restore the muscle to its initial state?