Hidden wonders : the subtle dialogue between physics and elegance
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Hidden wonders : the subtle dialogue between physics and elegance
The MIT Press, c2020
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Summary: "HIDDEN WONDERS focuses on the objects that populate our everyday life -- crumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pile -- but looks at them with a physicist's eye, revealing a hidden elegance in mundane physical mechanisms. In six chapters--Builders, Creating Shapes, Building with Threads, From Sand to Glass, Matter in Motion, and Fractures--the authors present brief stories, set in locales ranging from the Eiffel Tower to a sandcastle, that illustrate the little wonders hidden in the ordinary. A simple experiment that readers can perform at home concludes each story. More than 200 illustrations bring the stories to life." -- Adapted from cover flapIncludes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [312])
