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10 instruments- INST·110◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe BoneGalileo’s square–cube law on a size dial from a shrew to a Brobdingnagian — weight grows as L³, bone strength as L², and the femur’s stress slope is fitted live from your own samples: the photocopied mouse breaks, Galileo’s thick-boned giant turns to solid bone, and real mammals cheat by standing straighter.scaleallometrybiomechanicssquare-cube
- INST·111◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe FallHaldane’s thousand-yard mine shaft with a real drag law — drop your own body beside a mouse, a rat, a man and a horse on a log-time clock: terminal speed grows as √L, so the mouse walks away, and below a millimetre the fitted slope jumps to 2 as viscosity takes over at Re = 1.scaleallometrydragfluids
- INST·112◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe HeartKleiber’s 3/4 counted out of a vascular tree — dial a mammal from below a shrew to a blue whale and the engine grows a space-filling network down to the same 4 µm capillary: the fitted exponent of its capillary count is 3/4, heart rate falls as M^−1/4, and every mammal gets about the same lifetime of beats.scaleallometrymetabolismnetworks
- INST·113◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe SwimPurcell’s scallop on a size dial from a bacterium to a blue whale — at low Reynolds number a swimmer that only opens and closes goes exactly nowhere (the meter reads the float floor), so bacteria corkscrew; past Re ≈ 1 the scallop starts to coast, and stirred syrup un-stirs when you turn the handle back.scalefluidslow-reynoldsswimming
- INST·114◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe DropA drop from a nanolitre to a litre, solved exactly from the Young–Laplace equation — below the 2.7 mm capillary length it is a perfect cap and its height grows as V^1/3; above it gravity wins and the puddle stops at 2ℓc sin(θ/2), the fitted slope bending at Bo = 1.scalesurface-tensioncapillarityfluids
- INST·115◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe WingTennekes’s great flight diagram, flown from a fruit fly to a jumbo jet — wing loading climbs as weight^1/3 and cruising speed as weight^1/6, fitted from your own samples beside real flyers, and a power race against muscle ends flapping near the weight of a swan.scaleallometryflightaerodynamics
- INST·116◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe TreeGreenhill’s flagpole, grown in 3-D — a trunk buckles under its own weight at a height ∝ diameter^2/3; grow a tree as a photocopy and it reaches the silver line and bows, grow it by McMahon’s elastic similarity and it stops at about a quarter of the limit, where the real giants stand.scaleallometrybucklingtrees
- INST·117◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe CityUrban scaling measured on a growing night map — double a city and it needs about 80 % more road but makes about 125 % more of everything people make together; the engine lays every road and walks every resident’s day, and the 5/6 and 7/6 fall out of the geometry.scaleallometrycitiesnetworks
- INST·118◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe ChipDennard’s rule from 100 µm to less than an atom — shrink a transistor by k and its power density holds still, until Boltzmann’s 60 mV per decade pins the voltage near 2005: the slope turns from 0 to 2, the clock stalls near 4 GHz, and the cores go dark, counted on a live die.scalesemiconductorsthermodynamicscomputing
- INST·119◆Lemuel EditionsimulationThe MountainWeisskopf’s recipe, live — from the fine-structure constant and gravity’s weakness, the size of an atom, the tallest mountain a planet can hold, the largest planet and the smallest star, each an order of magnitude beside the measured one. The height limit is The Bone’s square–cube law written on a planet; turn α and α_G and the whole diagram of everything moves.scaleconstantsgravityplanets