| Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance | |
| ISBN: 9780262539890 Author: Guyon, Etienne (Author) / Bico, Jose (Author) / Re Publisher: MIT Press Published: March 2021 Retail: $29.95 OUR PRICE: $28.45 You Save 5% Binding Type: Paperback Annotation: 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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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - General - Science | Experiments & Projects - Reference | Curiosities & Wonders |
| Dewey: 621 |
| Physical Information: 8.30" H x 830.00" L x 6.30" W |
| Bargain Category: Activity/Workbooks, Adult, High School, Math, Nature, Reference, Science, Technology |
| Grade level(s): 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th |