The total area of the faces is the surface area of the cube. To work out the surface area of a cube: Find the area of one face. The face is a square. The area of the square face is the side length ...

How come? Large cubes melt more slowly because of their surface area-to-volume ratio. Imagine a big cube of ice with six sides. Heat flows from the air (or your drink) into the ice, through the ...

When an object is scaled up by some multiplier, its mass increases as the cube of the multiplier, but its surface and cross sectional area are increased only as the square of the multiplier.