Hidden Wonders The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance
Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance by Etienne Guyon, published by MIT Press on February 23, 2021, is an illustrated exploration of the hidden elegance found in everyday objects and physical mechanisms. This 324-page book invites readers to examine familiar items, such as crumpled paper and sandcastles, through the lens of physics, revealing the intricate beauty embedded in the mundane. The narrative is structured into six chapters, each presenting brief stories that highlight the wonders of ordinary materials and structures.
Readers will discover a range of topics, including experiments and projects that can be performed at home, enhancing their understanding of physics in a practical context. Each chapter, from Builders to Fractures, is accompanied by more than 200 illustrations that vividly bring the concepts to life. The book emphasizes curiosity and exploration, making it a valuable reference for those interested in science and the subtle complexities of the physical world.
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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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