The new world of Mr. Tompkins Russell Stannard
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrationsISBN: 9780521639927; 9780521630092Subject(s): Physics | SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory | Physics | NatuurkundeDDC classification: 808.83Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 808.83 GAM/N (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P25992 |
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808.83 FEY/S "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character / | 808.83 FEY/T The pleasure of finding theings out/ | 808.83 FEY/W What do YOU care what other people think? : further adventures of a curious character / | 808.83 GAM/N The new world of Mr. Tompkins | 808.83 GAN/P Possessions/ | 808.83 GRA/T The Madness of nero / | 808.83 HAM/G Great stories by Nobel Prize Winners/ |
Gamow's Preface to Mr Tompkins in Paperback xi -- 1 City Speed Limit 1 -- 2 The Professor's Lecture on Relativity which Caused Mr Tompkins's Dream 10 -- 3 Mr Tompkins takes a Holiday 24 -- 4 The Notes of the Professor's Lecture on Curved Space 45 -- 5 Mr Tompkins Visits a Closed Universe 59 -- 6 Cosmic Opera 69 -- 7 Black Holes, Heat Death, and Blow Torch 81 -- 8 Quantum Snooker 91 -- 9 The Quantum Safari 113 -- 10 Maxwell's Demon 123 -- 11 The Merry Tribe of Electrons 140 -- 11 1/2 The Remainder of the Previous Lecture through which Mr Tompkins Dozed 155 -- 12 Inside the Nucleus 164 -- 13 The Woodcarver 175 -- 14 Holes in Nothing 187 -- 15 Visiting the 'Atom Smasher' 196 -- 16 The Professor's Last Lecture 229.
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