Hidden Wonders
The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance
$65.02
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2021
Summary
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 local…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539890 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262539896 |
| Author: | Etienne Guyon, Jose Bico |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 810g |
| Dimensions: | 160mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“Hidden Wonders fills a major gap in popular science books. Guyon and co-authors convey to their readers a modern and interdisciplinary approach to physics in a style rarely seen in the genre — with special homage to recent developments in soft-matter physics and engineering sciences. Their effort is much needed, and we scientists should look to inspire the next generation, because there are still plenty of mysteries and wonders to be discovered.” — Marcelo A. Dias, Nature Physics
Etienne Guyon
About the Authors
Étienne Guyon is Emeritus Professor at ESPCI (Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics, and Honorary Director of the École Normale Supérieure. He is also coauthor of Built on Sand: The Science of Granular Materials (MIT Press).
José Bico is Associate Professor at ESPCI-PSL (Paris Science Lettres University).
Étienne Reyssat and Benoît Roman are CNRS researchers.
All authors work at the PMMH (Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media) lab of ESPCI-PSL in Sorbonne Université.
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