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Superheroes go to college

Nature Reviews Materials volume 4, pages 569–570 (2019)Cite this article

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Inspiration from superhero comics can help in the design of physics problems that are fun to solve and stimulate the students’ ability to analyse real-life situations in which several phenomena are at play.

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Kakalios, J. Superheroes go to college. Nat Rev Mater 4, 569–570 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-019-0131-2

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