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Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance
The hidden elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles. Hidden Wonders focuses on the objects that populate our everyday lifecrumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pilebut looks at them with a physicist's eye, revealing a hidden elegance in mundane physical mechanisms. In six chaptersBuilders, Creating Shapes, Building with Threads, From Sand to Glass, Matter in Motion, and Fracturesthe 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.