The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance
Edición de la obra Hidden Wonders
| Autor | Etienne Guyon, Jose Bico, Etienne Reyssat, Benoit Roman |
|---|---|
| Editorial | MIT Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2021 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 320 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780262539890 |
| OCLC | 1153510207 |
| Número de Cutter | G989h |
"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." -- Adapted from cover flap.