Candle
A candle. As it burns, it gets shorter in length but longer in wax height.
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When length gets longer the area will be larger. As the length gets shorter the area will be smaller.
When the muscle contracts, it gets shorter. When it relaxes, it gets longer.
It's probably referring to muscles. Muscles do work when they get shorter. Muscles can't "get longer"; instead what happens is that another muscle pulls in the opposite direction and the first just sits there and gets stretched.
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Because if the shorter leg was shorter than the longer leg was long, then the longer leg wouldn't be longer than the shorter leg is short. The short leg would be the longer one rather than the long one being the short one.
Its longer cuz the longer the flatter the incline plane, and on flatter planes, the object presses more than on the shorter ( steeper ones)
One possible answer might be people - people get shorter the older they get.
At that time of year, the northern hemisphere is angled toward the the sun so it gets more light and longer days.
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