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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Gotham
Manufacturer: Gotham
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: September 21, 2006
Publisher: Gotham
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Studio: Gotham
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Product Description:
If superheroes stepped off the comic book page or silver screen and into reality, could they actually work their wonders in a world constrained by the laws of physics? How strong would Superman have to be to "leap tall buildings in a single bound"? Could Storm of the X-Men possibly control the weather? And how many cheeseburgers would the Flash need to eat to be able to run at supersonic speeds?
Face front, True Believer, and wonder no more! Because in The Physics of Superheroes acclaimed university professor James Kakalios shows that comic book heroes and villains get their physics right more often than you think.
In this scintillating scientific survey of super powers youll learn what the physics of forces and motion can reveal about Supermans strength and the true cause of the destruction of his home planet Krypton, what villains Magneto and Electro can teach us about the nature of electricityand finally get the definitive answer about whether it was the Green Goblin or Spider-Mans webbing that killed the Wall Crawlers girlfriend Gwen Stacy in that fateful plunge from the George Washington Bridge!
Along the way, The Physics of Superheroes explores everything from energy, to thermodynamics, to quantum mechanics, to solid state physics, and Kakalios relates the physics in comic books to such real-world applications as automobile airbags, microwave ovens, and transistors. Youll also see how comic books have often been ahead of science in explaining recent topics in quantum mechanics (with Kitty Pryde of the X-Men) and string theory (with the Crisis on Infinite Earths).
This is the book you need to read if you ever wondered how the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four can see when she turns transparent, if the Atom could travel on an electron through a phone line, or if electromagnetic theory can explain how Professor X reads minds. Fun, provocative, and packed with more superheroes and superpowers than an Avengers-Justice League crossover, The Physics of Superheroes will make both comic-book fans and physicists exclaim, "Excelsior!"
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The concept of this book was great! It started off pretty good but as I read through, it got kind of monotonous and boring...
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I am a sixteen-year-old boy who, like many teenagers, thinks physics is very difficult and boring. My mom got me this book for a project and the moment I started reading this book I fell in love with it. This book explains in such great detail everything I have been confused about in my physics class. Usually physics can be boring and hard to wrap your mind around, but in this book it's interesting and easy to understand. The forces and powers that superheroes require to do their feats are incredible. ... Read More
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The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios is a masterpiece that combines would-be-normal boring physics lessons with the interesting tales of superheroes that we have come to love. Kakalios dissects superhero after superhero, explaining each ones plausibility and, sadly for some, implausibility. Kakalios begins his novel with Section One, titled, "Mechanics". In this section, Kakalios goes over the basic laws of physics as described by Newton, including forces, momentum, centripetal acceleration, friction, ... Read More
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The book is great, well written and very interesting even if you don't like Physics. The comic sans font is surprisingly nice to look at. I did get a lot of crap, as I do anyway for reading books about Physics for fun, because this was about superheroes and physics. It's good that I have 10 years of Marine Corp training training under my belt or I could have lost some lunch money. Over all one of my favorite books about Physics.
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I am a middle school teacher in Crockett CA. I have taught science, language arts, reading and history over the past five years. Science has always been my favorite subject, and my passion, and this book is part of that passion for learning and understanding. Now I am an 8th grade science teacher, and have found this book the most valuable in my teaching collection.
Not only is it informative, but it's an attention grabber that can't be put down. Cover to cover, Jim Kalalios writes in ... Read More
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