Which cooks faster in boiling oil?
A kilogram of peaches have more skin area than a kilogram of
A wooden block has a mass of 1000 kg and a volume of 2 cubic meters....
Which has more skin, an elephant or a mouse?
An iron block is placed in a furnace where it is heated and...
A metal block has a density of 5000 kg per cubic meter and a mass of...
If the mass of an object were to double while its volume remains the...
When weight is applied to the top of a stone arch, all of the stone...
A spring is stretched 10 cm by a suspended 1-kg block. If two such...
When a chocolate bar is cut in half, its density is
Which has the greater density, a lake full of water or a cup full of...
If you make cupcakes and bake them as directed for a cake, you will...
The strength of a rope depends on its
Compared to a bar of pure gold, the density of a pure gold ring is
Which geometrical shape has the least surface area for a given volume?
In cooking a turkey in a conventional oven at a given temperature,...
A metal block has a density of 5000 kg per cubic meter and a volume of...
An unstretched hanging spring is 50 cm long. Suspending a 100-N weight...
When a load is placed on the middle of a horizontal beam supported at...
Which has more skin compared to its body weight, an elephant or a...
Which potatoes when peeled produce the most peelings?
If the volume of an object were to double while its mass stays the...
An elephant eats less for its size than smaller animals because
Flatten a spherical meatball into a hamburger and you increase its
A strong spring is stretched 10 cm by a suspended weight. If the...
If a loaf of bread is compressed, its
Suppose all sized potatoes are selling at the same price per kilogram....
If each dimension of a steel bridge is scaled up ten times, its...
A weightless spring is stretched 10 cm by a suspended 1-kg block. If...
Doubling the linear size of an object multiplies its area by
Tripling the linear size of an object multiplies its area by
A candymaker is making taffy apples. If she buys 100 kg of small...
Compared to the density of a kilogram of feathers, the density of a...
In cold weather, your hands will be warmer if you wear
If object A in your left hand and object B in your right hand both...
Stone slabs are stronger under
Eight little spheres of mercury coalesce to form a single sphere....
You wish to bolt a sign to a horizontal I-beam supporting a bridge....
The effects of scaling are beneficial to small creatures
If an elephant grew to twice its height, the area of its ears would be...
The effects of scaling are beneficial to swimmers who are relatively
Consider the fictional case of the incredible shrinking man. If he...
When a living cell doubles in diameter, the amount of its material to...
If a pencil's length and diameter are both multiplied by 10, then...
A metal block has a mass of 5 grams and a volume of 1 cubic...
Compared to the volume of a kilogram of feathers, the volume of a...
If an elephant grows to twice its normal height, its weight will be...
Eight little spheres of mercury coalesce to form a single sphere....
Doubling the thickness (diameter) of a rope will multiply its strength...
A dome-shaped house is more heat efficient than a rectangular house...
Which will bounce higher off a hard surface?
Consider the fictional case of the incredible shrinking woman. If her...
A solid glass ball weighs 1 newton. One with twice the diameter weighs
Compared to a 50-kg person, a 100-kg person at the beach requires