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Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance

Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance

Bico, Jose
Guyon, Etienne
Reyssat, Etienne

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ISBN10: 0262539896
ISBN13: 9780262539890
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 23 2021
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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.

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