216 Pages
by
CRC Press
216 Pages
by
CRC Press
216 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Many of us have been fascinated as children by soap bubbles and soap films. Their shapes and colours are beautiful and they are great fun to pay with. With no les intensity, scientists and mathematicians have been interested in the properties of bubbles and films throughout scientific history. In this book David Lovett describes the properties of soap films and soap bubbles. He then uses their... Read more
Introduction. Two-dimensional soap-film patterns. Soap films and first- and second-order phase transitions. Soap-film models and catastrophe models. Film within a wedge - the catenoidal surface. Soap films within three-dimensional frameworks and minimal surfaces. Fermat's principle and refraction. Bubbles. Analogies within the scientific world. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Lovett,
