Hidden Wonders
Author: Guyon, Etienne
ISBN: 9780262539890
Publisher: MIT Press
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 324
Dimensions: 270mm x 162mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
ISBN: 9780262539890
Publisher: MIT Press
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 324
Dimensions: 270mm x 162mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
