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200 10$aSurface/Volume $eHow Geometry Explains Why Grain Elevators Explode, Hummingbirds Hover, and Asteroids are Colder than Ice /$fby Alan E. Rubin
205   $a1st ed. 2023.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023.
215   $a1 online resource (187 pages)
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction -- A Truncated History of Geometry -- Middle School Math -- Asteroids, Moons, Planets, and Meteorites -- Geologic Processes -- Geometry of Life -- Biochemistry -- Chemical Reactions -- Ecology -- Manufacturing.
330   $aThis 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.
606   $aEngineering mathematics
606   $aEngineering$xData processing
606   $aPlanetary science
606   $aEngineering geology
606   $aMathematical and Computational Engineering Applications
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615  0$aEngineering mathematics.
615  0$aEngineering$xData processing.
615  0$aPlanetary science.
615  0$aEngineering geology.
615 14$aMathematical and Computational Engineering Applications.
615 24$aPlanetary Science.
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