The Hidden Elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles.
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 loc.
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.
The Hidden Elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles