POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Strength : Re: Strength Server Time
4 Sep 2024 17:22:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Strength  
From: Invisible
Date: 10 Feb 2010 08:45:57
Message: <4b72b895@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> Mass rises as the cube of size, but muscle power rises as the square 
>> of size.
> 
> I would have thought the strength of a muscle depends on its volume, why 
> do you say is rises with the square of size?

Muscle power is [apparently] proportional to cross-section area, not volume.


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