Objects of different shapes have different mass-to-area ratios.
For two similar objects, the volume is proportional to the third power of its length, but the surface area proportional to the second power of its length. For example, doubling the length would give you 8 times as much volume, and 4 times as much area.
To obtain the ratio of surface area to volume, divide the surface area by the volume.
surface area/ volume. wider range of surface area to volume is better for cells.
Volume=area * length of that surface
surface area divided by volume
Think of surface area as your skin and volume as all the contents inside your body. So they relate because surface area can hold volume or volume could be inside the surface area.
Volume varies as the 1.5th power of the surface area of regular solids. With other well behave solids, this relationship applies as long as all three dimensions change in the same ratio - that is, the shapes are similar.
Volume of a solid helps us understand the amount of space it occupy's internally. Surface area of a solid helps us know what is the area of a given face/faces of a solid.
box:length*breath*height cuboid:same as above
Although they do not increase at the same rate, as the surface area increases the volume increases slowly.
To obtain the ratio of surface area to volume, divide the surface area by the volume.
estimate the volume of solids that are combinations of other solids
surface area/ volume. wider range of surface area to volume is better for cells.
The surface-area-to-volume ratio may be calculated as follows: -- Find the surface area of the shape. -- Find the volume of the shape. -- Divide the surface area by the volume. The quotient is the surface-area-to-volume ratio.
The rate of combustion directly proportional to the surface area of combining naterials
Volume does not, surface area does.
Volume=area * length of that surface
surface area divided by volume