From hand-sized lantern sharks that glow in the deep sea to bus-sized whale sharks gliding through tropical waters, sharks ...

Using the S⇔D calculator button ... Practise working out the surface area and volume of cylinders with this quiz. You may need a pen and paper to help you with your answers.

There are very few things that are so far reaching across many different disciplines, ranging from biology to engineering, as is the relation of the surface area to the volume of a body.

Note that as the radius of a cell increases from 1x to 3x (left), the surface area increases from 1x to 9x, and the volume increases from 1x to 27x. Eukaryotic cells are more complex than ...

But the simple relationship between any object's surface area and volume infiltrates every field of science and engineering. It's a major factor in the shape and size of everything from plants and ...