Question

"more surface volume ratio,more efficiency"Explain?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Imagine a piece of meat around 20cm by 20cm. That's quite a lot, right? Now, imagine you eating that piece of meat. You would obviously take small bites because you can't fit that large piece in your mouth. Once you take a bite, you would then instinctively chew it thoroughly into smaller pieces so you would be able to swallow it. Now, once you swallow it, your meat would then travel down the oesophagus and be digested by the hydrochloric acid in your stomach.

This is when your surface area to volume ratio comes in handy. What it is trying to say in other words is that the smaller your object is, the more surface area it has and the smaller your volume will be.

Say you have a 1cm by 1cm by 1cm object. Your surface area would be 6cm squared while your volume would be 1cm cubed.

Say you have a 2cm by 2cm by 2cm object. Your surface area would be 24cm squared and your volume would be 8cm cubed.

So since you have a larger surface area, then chemicals such as the hydrochloric acid inside your stomach would be able to react quickly with the surfaces of your piece of meat. Hence, it would be quickly broken down as the chemical would be able to react rapidly with each side of the piece of meat and since the volume is quite small, you wouldn't take that long before your meat has been digested.

Therefore, "more surface area, more efficiency" basically means that the more surface area your object has, then the shorter time it takes to react with the object, so it would be more efficient (less time-consuming).

Hope this helps!