The cover of “Surprises in Theoretical Physics” by Rudolph Peierls. It is mostly light blue with white lines and curves.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/492/262/568/527/039/original/73e9d3c249b4fe9b.jpeg
The books collect examples where a naive or unrefined physical intuition leads one astray: simple problems that lead to counterintuitive results, or complex problems that yield surprisingly simple solutions.
Both are classics and highly recommended.
If you have JSTOR access, you can find them there!
Surprises: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1416425
More Surprises: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv10crg2s
Chirp! is a social network. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.1-beta0, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All Chirp! content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.