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Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance

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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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  • MIT Press Brand
  • Feb 23, 2021 Pub Date:
  • 9780262539890 ISBN-13:
  • 0262539896 ISBN-10:
  • 324 Pages
  • English Language
  • 8.31 in * 6.41 in * 1 in Dimensions:
  • 2 lb Weight: