The Physics of Superheroes (2nd Edition) by James Kakalios

By James Kakalios

A whole replace to the hit ebook at the actual physics at paintings in comedian books, that includes extra heroes, extra villains, and extra technology

in view that 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything i wanted to grasp approximately Physics I discovered from interpreting comedian Books," a highly renowned collage direction that generated coast-to-coast media recognition for its exact approach to explaining complicated physics suggestions via comics. With The Physics of Superheroes, named the most effective technological know-how books of 2005 by means of Discover, he brought his colourful method of a fair wider viewers. Now Kakalios provides a unconditionally up to date, increased version that includes much more superheroes and findings from the innovative of technology. With 3 new chapters and entirely revised all through with a splashy, redesigned package deal, the e-book that explains why Spider-Man's webbing failed his female friend, the possible explanation for Krypton's explosion, and the Newtonian physics at paintings in Gotham urban is electrifying from conceal to hide.

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In any event, I promise you that there will be no quizzes at the end of the book! ” Regardless of the answers you have obtained to your problem, there are always at least a few open questions—loose threads waiting to be pulled. Having written The Physics of Superheroes, I have discovered that, similarly, no book is ever finished. The manuscript is delivered to the editor, galley proofs are checked (though the typographical errors that inevitably slip through are guaranteed to be the first thing the proud author spots upon cracking open the newly published book), the book shows up on the shelves of bookstores, and yet threads remain loose.

There is no physical mechanism by which a shift in the primary wavelength of sunlight from yellow (a wavelength of 570 nanometers, or 570 billionths of a meter) to red light (650 nanometers) would endow someone with the ability to bend steel in his bare hands. Consequently, at this stage in his history, Superman ceased being a science-fiction strip and became a comic book about a fantasy hero. Changing a superhero’s origin in order to accommodate new powers or circumstances occurs so frequently in comic books that comic-book fans have coined a term, “retconning,” to describe this retroactive continuity repair.

Somehow it seemed to me even then that gravity should continue to work, whether or not one was conscious of it. I bring this example up, in spite of the fact that it involves no superheroes, and in fact involves a television cartoon rather than a comic-book figure, because it illustrates a point that has become central to the way I think about teaching physics: Few things are more memorable than confronting one’s own misconceptions. Indeed, some of us who study “physics education” for a living suggest that it is only by directly encouraging students to run up against their own misconceptions that you can help them internalize what you’re teaching them.

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