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Surface/Volume

- How Geometry Explains Why Grain Elevators Explode, Hummingbirds Hover, and Asteroids are Colder than Ice
Af: Alan E. Rubin Engelsk Paperback

Surface/Volume

- How Geometry Explains Why Grain Elevators Explode, Hummingbirds Hover, and Asteroids are Colder than Ice
Af: Alan E. Rubin Engelsk Paperback
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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. 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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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.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 182
ISBN-13: 9783031237485
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 303123748X
Udg. Dato: 1 mar 2023
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 155mm
Højde: 235mm
Forlag: Springer International Publishing AG
Oplagsdato: 1 mar 2023
Forfatter(e): Alan E. Rubin
Forfatter(e) Alan E. Rubin


Kategori Solsystemet: solen og planeterne


ISBN-13 9783031237485


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 182


Udgave


Længde 0mm


Bredde 155mm


Højde 235mm


Udg. Dato 1 mar 2023


Oplagsdato 1 mar 2023


Forlag Springer International Publishing AG

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