Penguin
Section 1—Mechanics; Up, Up, and Away—Forces and Motion; Deconstructing Krypton—Newton’s Law of Gravity; The Day Gwen Stacy Died—Impulse and Momentum; Can He Swing from a Thread?—Centripetal Acceleration; Flash Facts—Friction, Drag, and Sound; Like a Flash of Lightning—Special Relativity; If This Be My Density—Properties of Matter; Can Ant-Man Punch His Way Out of a Paper Bag?—Torque and Rotation; Is Ant-Man Deaf, Dumb, and Blind?—Simple Harmonic Motion; Does Size Matter?—The Cube-Square Law; Section 2—Energy—Heat and Light; The Central City Diet plan—Conservation of Energy; The Case of the Missing Work—The Three Laws of Thermodynamics; Mutant Meteorology—Conduction and Convection; How The Monstrous Menace of the Mysterious Melter; Makes Dinner Preparation a Breeze—Phase Transitions; Electro’s Clinging Ways—Electrostatics; Superman Schools Spider-Man—Electrical Currents; How Electro Becomes Magneto When He Runs—Ampere’s Law; How Magneto Becomes Electro When He Runs—Magnetism and Faraday’s Law; Electro and Magneto Do the Wave—Electromagnetism and Light; Section 3- Modern Physics; Journey into the Microverse—Atomic Physics; Not a Dream! Not a Hoax! Not an Imaginary Tale!—Quantum Mechanics; Through a Wall Lightly—Tunneling Phenomena; Sock It to Shellhead—Solid-State Physics; Section 4—What Have We Learned?; Me Am Bizarro!—Superhero Bloopers; Afterword: Lo, There Shall Be an Ending!; Ask Dr. K!; Recommended Reading; Key Equations
James Kakalios, Lawrence M. Krauss