Hidden Wonders The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance

Hidden Wonders focuses on the objects that populate our everyday life-crumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pile-but looks at them with a physicists' eye, revealing a hidden elegance in mundane physical mechanisms. In six chapters-Building, Shaping, Waving, From Sand Grains to Glass, Structures in Motion, Breaking-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.

ISBN:	9780262539890
Publisher:	The MIT Press
Imprint:	The MIT Press
Published date:	10 Feb 2021
DEWEY:	621
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	vii, 311
Weight:	810g
Height:	211mm
Width:	163mm
Spine width:	25mm

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