Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 14:46:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Diane Fortner <dfortner@library.berkeley.edu>

Book Suggestion
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	The Physics Library at UC Berkeley has a new book this week 
published in Great Britain in 1994 called:  Demonstrating Science with Soap 
Films.  Written by a physics teacher at the University of Essex, David R. 
Lovett, it "attempts to pass on some of the fun, which can be obtained 
from studying soap films and soap bubbles.  At the same time, it has a 
much more serious objective, that of using films to help one understand 
principles of physics in particular and other aspects of science in 
general.  This is possible because soap films are forever attempting to 
minimize their energy.  In the same way, minimization of energy is 
fundamental to the setting up of equilibrium physical situations."

				Cheers,  Diane Fortner
				         Physics Library,  UCB