James Kakalios explores the scientific plausibility of the powers and feats of the most famous superheroes and discovers that in many cases the comic writers got their science surprisingly right. Along the way he provides an engaging and witty commentary while introducing the lay reader to both classic and cutting-edge concepts in physics, including: What Superman s strength can tell us about the Newtonian physics of force, mass, and acceleration | How Iceman s and Storm s powers illustrate the principles of thermal dynamics | The physics behind the death of Spider-Man s girlfriend Gwen Stacy…mehr
James Kakalios explores the scientific plausibility of the powers and feats of the most famous superheroes and discovers that in many cases the comic writers got their science surprisingly right. Along the way he provides an engaging and witty commentary while introducing the lay reader to both classic and cutting-edge concepts in physics, including:
What Superman s strength can tell us about the Newtonian physics of force, mass, and acceleration
How Iceman s and Storm s powers illustrate the principles of thermal dynamics
The physics behind the death of Spider-Man s girlfriend Gwen Stacy
Why physics professors gone bad are the most dangerous evil geniuses!
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James Kakalios is a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught since 1988, and where his class "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books" is a popular freshman seminar. He received his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Chicago, and has been reading comic books for much longer.
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The Physics of Super HeroesForeword Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Secret Origins: How Science Saved Superhero Comic Books Section 1-Mechanics 1. Up, Up, and Away-Forces and Motion 2. Deconstructing Krypton-Newton's Law of Gravity 3. The Day Gwen Stacy Died-Impulse and Momentum 4. Flash Facts-Friction, Drag, and Sound 5. If This Be My Density-Properties of Matter 6. So He Talks to Fishes, Want to Make Something of It?-Fluid Mechanics 7. Can He Swing From a Thread?-Centripetal Acceleration 8. Can Ant-Man Punch His Way Out of a Paper Bag?-Torque and Rotation 9. The Human Top Goes Out for a Spin-Angular Momentum 10. Is Ant-Man Deaf, Dumb, and Blind?-Simple Harmonic Motion 11.Like a Flash of Lightning-Special Relativity Section 2-Energy-Heat and Light 12. The Central City Diet Plan-Conservation of Energy 13. The Case of the Missing Work-The Three Laws of Thermodynamics 14. Mutant Meteorology-Conduction and Convection 15. How the Monstrous Menace of the Mysterious Melter Makes Dinner Preparation a Breeze-Phase Transitions 16. Electro's Clinging Ways-Electrostatics 17. Superman Schools Spider-Man-Electrical Currents 18. How Electro Becomes Magneto When He Runs-Ampere's Law 19. How Magneto Becomes Electro When He Runs-Magnetism and Faraday's Law 20. Electro and Magneto Do the Wave-Electromagnetism and Light Section 3-Modern Physics 21. Journey Into the Microverse-Atomic Physics 22. Not a Dream! Not a Hoax! Not an Imaginary Tale!-Quantum Mechanics 23. Through a Wall Lightly-Tunneling Phenomena 24. Sock It to Shellhead-Solid-State Physics 25. The Costumes are Super, Too-Materials Science Section 4-What Have We Learned? 26. Me Am Bizarro!-Superhero Bloopers Afterword-Lo, There Shall Be an Ending! Recommended Reading Key Equations Notes Acknowledgments Index
The Physics of Super HeroesForeword Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Secret Origins: How Science Saved Superhero Comic Books Section 1-Mechanics 1. Up, Up, and Away-Forces and Motion 2. Deconstructing Krypton-Newton's Law of Gravity 3. The Day Gwen Stacy Died-Impulse and Momentum 4. Flash Facts-Friction, Drag, and Sound 5. If This Be My Density-Properties of Matter 6. So He Talks to Fishes, Want to Make Something of It?-Fluid Mechanics 7. Can He Swing From a Thread?-Centripetal Acceleration 8. Can Ant-Man Punch His Way Out of a Paper Bag?-Torque and Rotation 9. The Human Top Goes Out for a Spin-Angular Momentum 10. Is Ant-Man Deaf, Dumb, and Blind?-Simple Harmonic Motion 11.Like a Flash of Lightning-Special Relativity Section 2-Energy-Heat and Light 12. The Central City Diet Plan-Conservation of Energy 13. The Case of the Missing Work-The Three Laws of Thermodynamics 14. Mutant Meteorology-Conduction and Convection 15. How the Monstrous Menace of the Mysterious Melter Makes Dinner Preparation a Breeze-Phase Transitions 16. Electro's Clinging Ways-Electrostatics 17. Superman Schools Spider-Man-Electrical Currents 18. How Electro Becomes Magneto When He Runs-Ampere's Law 19. How Magneto Becomes Electro When He Runs-Magnetism and Faraday's Law 20. Electro and Magneto Do the Wave-Electromagnetism and Light Section 3-Modern Physics 21. Journey Into the Microverse-Atomic Physics 22. Not a Dream! Not a Hoax! Not an Imaginary Tale!-Quantum Mechanics 23. Through a Wall Lightly-Tunneling Phenomena 24. Sock It to Shellhead-Solid-State Physics 25. The Costumes are Super, Too-Materials Science Section 4-What Have We Learned? 26. Me Am Bizarro!-Superhero Bloopers Afterword-Lo, There Shall Be an Ending! Recommended Reading Key Equations Notes Acknowledgments Index
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