1 Also known as cube law and law of sizes.

2 The seminal work on scaling is Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei, Prometheus Books [reprint], 1991.

3 “Design Flaw Seen as Failure Cause in Trident 2 Tests” by Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times, August 17, 1989, p. 1.

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