The square-cube law can be stated as follows:
When an object undergoes a proportional increase in size, its new volume is proportional to the cube of the multiplier and its new surface area is proportional to the square of the multiplier.
Represented mathematically:
where
is the original volume,
is the new volume,
is the original length and
is the new length. Which length is used does not matter.
where
is the original surface area and
is the new surface area.
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