Stannard, Russell <br/><br/>
The new world of Mr. Tompkins : George Gamow's classic Mr. Tompkins in paperback / 
fully revised and updated by Russell Stannard. 
 - New York:  Cambridge University Press,  1999. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages):  illustrations 
<br/><br/> Gamow's Preface to Mr Tompkins in Paperback  City Speed Limit  The Professor's Lecture on Relativity which Caused Mr Tompkins's Dream  Mr Tompkins takes a Holiday  The Notes of the Professor's Lecture on Curved Space  Mr Tompkins Visits a Closed Universe  Cosmic Opera  Black Holes, Heat Death, and Blow Torch  Quantum Snooker  The Quantum Safari  Maxwell's Demon  The Merry Tribe of Electrons  The Remainder of the Previous Lecture through which Mr Tompkins Dozed  Inside the Nucleus  The Woodcarver  Holes in Nothing  Visiting the 'Atom Smasher'  The Professor's Last Lecture  xi --  1  1 --  2  10 --  3  24 --  4  45 --  5  59 --  6  69 --  7  81 --  8  91 --  9  113 --  10  123 --  11  140 --  11 1/2  155 --  12  164 --  13  175 --  14  187 --  15  196 --  16  229. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0511008007 9780511008009 9780511581694 0511581696 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Physics.<br/>SCIENCE--Physics--Quantum Theory.<br/>Physics.<br/>Natuurkunde.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.83  / STA/N