Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance
Author(s): Etienne Guyon; Jose Bico; Etienne Reyssat; Benoit Roman
The hidden elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles.
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.
Product Information
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- : MIT Press
- : MIT Press
- : 0.812384
- : 23 February 2021
- : 1 Inches X 6.41 Inches X 8.31 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : 324
- : 2104
- : Paperback
- : Etienne Guyon; Jose Bico; Etienne Reyssat; Benoit Roman