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_bSTA/N
100 1 _aStannard, Russell
245 1 4 _aThe new world of Mr. Tompkins : George Gamow's classic Mr. Tompkins in paperback /
_cfully revised and updated by Russell Stannard.
260 _aNew York:
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1999.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 258 pages):
_billustrations
505 0 0 _tGamow's Preface to Mr Tompkins in Paperback
_gxi --
_g1
_tCity Speed Limit
_g1 --
_g2
_tThe Professor's Lecture on Relativity which Caused Mr Tompkins's Dream
_g10 --
_g3
_tMr Tompkins takes a Holiday
_g24 --
_g4
_tThe Notes of the Professor's Lecture on Curved Space
_g45 --
_g5
_tMr Tompkins Visits a Closed Universe
_g59 --
_g6
_tCosmic Opera
_g69 --
_g7
_tBlack Holes, Heat Death, and Blow Torch
_g81 --
_g8
_tQuantum Snooker
_g91 --
_g9
_tThe Quantum Safari
_g113 --
_g10
_tMaxwell's Demon
_g123 --
_g11
_tThe Merry Tribe of Electrons
_g140 --
_g11 1/2
_tThe Remainder of the Previous Lecture through which Mr Tompkins Dozed
_g155 --
_g12
_tInside the Nucleus
_g164 --
_g13
_tThe Woodcarver
_g175 --
_g14
_tHoles in Nothing
_g187 --
_g15
_tVisiting the 'Atom Smasher'
_g196 --
_g16
_tThe Professor's Last Lecture
_g229.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 7 _aSCIENCE
_xPhysics
_xQuantum Theory.
650 7 _aPhysics.
650 1 7 _aNatuurkunde.
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