โ Scribed by Kakalios, James
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A look inside the amazingโand often surprisingly accurateโphysics behind the powers of your favorite superheroes! 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 โleap tall buildings in a single boundโ? 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 superpowers youโll learn what the physics of forces and motion can reveal about Supermanโs 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 electricity; and finally get the definitive answer about whether it was the Green Goblin or Spider-Manโs webbing that killed the Wall Crawlerโs 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 solid state physics, and Kakalios relates the physics in comic books to such real-world applications as automobile air bags, microwave ovens, and transistors. Youโll also see how comic books have often been ahead of science in explainin recent topics in quantum mechanics (with Kitty Pryde of the X-Men) and string theory (with Crisis on Infinite Earths).
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