L P Pook: 2 books
Serious Fun with Flexagons
A Compendium and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
A flexagon is a motion structure that has the appearance of a ring of hinged polygons. It can be flexed to display different pairs of faces, usually in cyclic order. Flexagons can be appreciated as toys or puzzles, as a recreational mathematics topic, and as the subject of serious mathematical study....
Understanding Pendulums
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Despite their apparent simplicity, the behaviour of pendulums can be remarkably complicated. Historically, pendulums for specific purposes have been developed using a combination of simplified theory and trial and error. There do not appear to be any introductory books on pendulums, written at an...