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Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance
The MIT Press
ISBN13:
9780262539890
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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.
- | Author: Etienne Guyon
- | Publisher: The MIT Press
- | Publication Date: February 23, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 324 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0262539896
- | ISBN-13: 9780262539890
- Author:
- Etienne Guyon
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- Publication Date:
- February 23, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 324 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0262539896
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262539890