Quarks & Quilts: A Physics Sampler is a quilt that is educational in two vastly different disciplines—physics and quilting. It seamlessly connects these two topics by simultaneously being informative and artistic. It is a fabric textbook on introductory physics, and while the theme of the quilt is physics, the quilt utilizes numerous quilting techniques, concepts, and quilt blocks to illustrate the concepts of physics. A “sampler quilt” is a traditional quilt composed of different quilt blocks. Quarks & Quilts: A Physics Sampler offers a sampling of quilting concepts as well as a sampling of physics concepts. A photo of the quilt can be seen on this month's cover.
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2005
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