The new world of Mr. Tompkins : George Gamow's classic Mr. Tompkins in paperback / fully revised and updated by Russell Stannard.

By: Stannard, RussellMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages): illustrationsISBN: 0511008007; 9780511008009; 9780511581694; 0511581696Subject(s): Physics | SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory | Physics | NatuurkundeDDC classification: 808.83
Contents:
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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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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