Название: Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance
Автор: Etienne Guyon, Jose Bico, Etienne Reyssat
Издательство: The MIT Press
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

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.