C. V. Boys’s Soap-Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them may be the most charming physics book ever written: three juvenile lectures in which films and bubbles reveal surface tension, minimal surfaces and capillarity through experiments of legendary beauty — bubbles pierced, joined, frozen and set aglow.
Generations of physicists trace their vocation to these pages. Download the free EPUB and see deep physics floating on a wand.