Demonstrating science with soap films / David Lovett ; computer programs, John Tilley and David Lovett
- Bib ID:
- 488137
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lovett, D. R. (David R.)
- Description:
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- Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., c1994
- xii, 204 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0750302704
- 0750302690 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Two-dimensional soap-film patterns
- 3. Soap films and first- and second-order phase transitions
- 4. Soap-film models and catastrophe models
- 5. Film within a wedge - the catenoidal surface
- 6. Soap films within three-dimensional frameworks and minimal surfaces
- 7. Fermat's principle and refraction
- 8. Bubbles
- 9. Analogies within the scientific world
- App. A.I Construction of the models
- App. A.II Soap-film patterns by computer using Mathematica / John Tilley and David Lovett.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 192-195.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Tilley, John, Ph. D
- Copyright:
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1994
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