Surface Area Increase by Size Reduction


	This Demonstration shows how breaking up a cube into smaller ones increases the total surface area.


	Contributed by: Mark D. Normand and Micha Peleg

Upon successive breakage into smaller cubes, each time by halving the sides, the volume remains constant while the surface area increases dramatically. The total area of all cubes at each iteration is the red dot on the continuous line plot of area/volume.

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Contributed by: Mark D. Normand and Micha Peleg

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