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Have you ever wondered whether a human could really fly with wings like a bird's? What about how many zombies you could actually drive through? Or whether airplanes could save fuel by using iPads instead of paper safety manuals? How about whether Superman could really punch someone into space?In Geek Physics, Rhett Allain, a physics professor and Wired's popular Dot Physics blogger, finds intriguing questions buried in familiar movies and TV shows, video games, viral videos, and news hooks and walks readers through the fascinating answers from a physics perspective, without all the complicated details. Geek Physics appeals not just to the geek oriented but also to anyone who loves pop culture and technology.
With illustrations, basic equations, and easy-to-read graphs and diagrams, each chapter not only covers the most popular subjects from Allain's blog, like lightsabers and McDonald's drive-thrus, but uses those questions from a less technical approach to teach basic physics concepts. What better way to explain the nature of light than to consider how Gollum could see in the dark?
Geek Physics explores interesting questions like:
* How much bubble wrap would you need to safely jump off a 6th floor building?
* Why does R2-D2 fly the way he does?
* Why does a mirror reverse left to light, but not top to bottom?
* Is Angry Birds using real physics?
* Does a heavier truck make a better snow plow?
* What if everyone on earth jumped at the same time?
* How many dollar bills would it take to stack them to the moon?
Contents
How Fast Do Tweet Waves vs. Seismic Waves Travel?
How Much Would R2-D2 Weigh If He Could Fly?
How Realistic Is the Physics in Angry Birds?
Big Space Ships With Even Bigger Thrusters
Jumping Off a Building With Bubble Wrap
Is It Better to Crash Into Another Car, or a Brick Wall?
Can a Human Out-Pull a Truck?
Would the Hulk Break the Road Whenever He Jumped?
Can Humans Fly Like Birds, With Wings?
Can You Fall Faster Than the Speed of Sound?
Big Hail Is Bad
Why Do Astronauts Feel Weightless?
How Can a Broom Balance On Its Brushes?
Can You Cook a Turkey By Dropping It?
How Much Energy Does It Take to Get a Candy Bar in Orbit?
Building and Supplying a Death Star With the ATV
The Long Jump: Gravity and Air
Linear Regression and the Long Jump
Power and Olympic Swimmers
Scoring the Decathlon
Diving and the Moment of Inertia
Could Cyclists Cheat With Hidden Batteries?
What is Arnold Schwarzenegger Made Of?
What Does Pi Have to do With Gravity?
Can Airplanes Save Fuel by Using iPads?
How Many Zombies Could You Drive Through?
How Much Water Would It Take to Move a Car?
Could Adam Savage Have Accidentally Killed Himself in the Swimming Car Myth?
A Scale at the Bottom of a Pool
Spaceships Underwater
How Much Ice Do You Need to Cool Your Beer?
Can Ice Cream Get Cold Enough to be Zero Calories?
The Power Source for a Light Saber
Can You Charge Your Phone by Typing?
Why Do Mirrors Reverse Left and Right, But Not Up and Down?
Can a Building Be a Sun-Death Ray?
Gollum Physics
The Physics of Thor's Hammer
A Banana Powered Generator
How Many Dollar Bills Would it Take to Stack Them to the Moon?
Could You Build a Scale LEGO Model of the Death Star?
Would You Rather Fight a Horse-Sized Duck or 100 Duck-Sized Horses?
NASA Space Games
