The surface-to-volume ratio in thermal physics: From cheese cube physics to animal metabolism

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 369-384

  Planini, Gorazd ^a   Vollmer, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COOLING; HEATING; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

COOLING CURVES; SURFACE TO VOLUME RATIO;

METABOLISM;

EID: 40549136839     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 13616404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/29/2/017     Document Type: Article

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