Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Splitting aerosols

How much more surface area do you obtain from splitting aerosols in half? That is to say a constant volume holds while splitting the aerosol volume like so:
I want to compare surface S1 with surface S2. Since surface is related to volume like so,
then the ration S2/Sbecomes (and accounting for the two spheres in S2),

Hence there is 26% more surface area available if all sphere of volume V divide into spheres of volume V/2.

If the aerosol is split unevenly into fractions x and 1- x (where 0 < x < 1), then
which looks like this:


The equation is if course symmetric about the point x = 0.5.

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