by James Kakalios · Gotham · tapa dura · ISBN 9781592401468
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«The Physics of Superheroes» is James Kakalios's popular science essay, published by Gotham in hardback (384 pages, in English).
Kakalios analyses the powers of comic-book superheroes to explain physics: gravity, motion, energy, thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Superman, Spider-Man, Flash, Magneto or the Invisible Woman serve to show how science appears in the panels and how those same laws operate in the real world.
First edition published in September 2005. Includes a foreword by Lawrence M. Krauss, author of «The Physics of Star Trek».
Aimed at a general adult audience, especially comic readers who want to understand the physics present in popular culture.
