Surface/Volume : How Geometry Explains Why Grain Elevators Explode, Hummingbirds Hover, and Asteroids are Colder than Ice
1st ed. 2023
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Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
303123748X
ISBN-13
9783031237485
Edition
1st ed. 2023
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
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Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 2023
Print length
182 Pages
Weight
362 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.60 x 1.30 cms
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This book explains that diffusion, osmosis, dissolution, evaporation, and heat loss all preferentially affect small bodies due to their high surface/volume ratios.
This book explains that diffusion, osmosis, dissolution, evaporation, and heat loss all preferentially affect small bodies due to their high surface/volume ratios. Because surface area increases as the square of length, but volume (and mass) increase as the cube, large objects have low surface/volume ratios and small objects have high surface/volume ratios. This simple physical constraint governs much of the physical world. It accounts for why the Earth has active volcanoes, but the Moon does not, why the human brain has numerous folds, why deciduous trees lose their leaves every Fall, and why nanoparticles of gold melt at surprisingly low temperatures. It is a phenomenon well known to every scientist, but this book is the first comprehensive treatment of this effect.
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