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The hidden elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles. 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 Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press LTD
ISBN-139780262539890
eBay Product ID (ePID)19046686532
Product Key Features
SubjectScience, Classical Studies, Physics
Publication Year2021
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameHidden Wonders: the Subtle Dialogue between Physics and Elegance
LanguageEnglish
TypeReference
AuthorEtienne Guyon, Jose Bico
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height210 mm
Item Width160 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorEtienne Guyon, Jose Bico