The Physics of Superheroes

基本信息

Format:Paperback 448 pages

Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group

Imprint:Avery

ISBN:9781592405084

Published:3 Nov 2009

Classifications:Popular culture

Weight:420g

Dimensions:229 x 152 x 25(mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

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A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science

Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books," a hugely popular university course that generated coast-to-coast media attention for its unique method of explaining complex physics concepts through comics. With The Physics of Superheroes, named one of the best science books of 2005 by Discover, he introduced his colorful approach to an even wider audience. Now Kakalios presents a totally updated, expanded edition that features even more superheroes and findings from the cutting edge of science. With three new chapters and completely revised throughout with a splashy, redesigned package, the book that explains why Spider-Man's webbing failed his girlfriend, the probable cause of Krypton's explosion, and the Newtonian physics at work in Gotham City is electrifying from cover to cover.

目录

The Physics of Super Heroes Foreword

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

作者简介

詹姆斯·卡卡里奥斯 （James Kakalios）美国明尼苏达大学物理学与天文学教授，畅销书作者。他是凝聚态物理学领域的一位实验物理学家，研究范围非常广泛，涉及纳米材料和神经系统中的随机共振分析等。由于在科普方面做出的杰出贡献，他曾被美国物理学会和美国科学促进会授予相关奖项。

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.