Hidden Wonders

<b>The hidden elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms from crumpled paper to sandcastles.</b><br><br><i>Hidden Wonders</i> 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.