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"Surprisingly enough, according to Kakalios, comic books get their physics right more often than you’d think."
—The Boston Globe
"Writing with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Kakalios looks at classic comics with a physicist’s eye. . . . Outstanding."
—The Orlando Sentinel
"Kakalios, a University of Minnesota physicist and unrepentant comics nerd, offers up jovial, largely equation-free deconstructions of Ant-Man’s shrinking ability, the centripetal acceleration of Spider-Man’s swing, and the strength of his silk web."
—Discover
"Wildly entertaining, yet scientifically accurate... Comprises a fairly solid introductory education in physics, sweetened with a history lesson in classic comic book superheroes."
—Metro
"Offers a droll but sincere look at what Superman and Spider-Man can teach about physics. . . . Entertaining. . . . His explanations are lucid and smooth."
—Science magazine
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"Surprisingly enough, according to Kakalios, comic books get their physics right more often than you’d think."
—The Boston Globe
"Writing with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Kakalios looks at classic comics with a physicist’s eye. . . . Outstanding."
—The Orlando Sentinel
"Kakalios, a University of Minnesota physicist and unrepentant comics nerd, offers up jovial, largely equation-free deconstructions of Ant-Man’s shrinking ability, the centripetal acceleration of Spider-Man’s swing, and the strength of his silk web."
—Discover
"Wildly entertaining, yet scientifically accurate... Comprises a fairly solid introductory education in physics, sweetened with a history lesson in classic comic book superheroes."
—Metro
"Offers a droll but sincere look at what Superman and Spider-Man can teach about physics. . . . Entertaining. . . . His explanations are lucid and smooth."
—Science magazine
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.
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- PublisherPenguin Book Group
- Publication date2010
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- ISBN 13 9780715639115
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