Mr Tompkins in Paperback.
Gamow, George.
Mr Tompkins in Paperback. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (202 pages) - Canto Series . - Canto Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 City Speed Limit -- 2 The Professor's Lecture on Relativity which caused Mr Tompkins's dream -- 3 Mr Tompkins takes a holiday -- 4 The Professor's Lecture on Curved Space, Gravity and the Universe -- 5 The Pulsating Universe -- 6 Cosmic Opera -- 7 Quantum Billiards -- 8 Quantum Jungles -- 9 Maxwell's Demon -- 10 The Gay Tribe of Electrons -- 10½ A Part of the Previous Lecture which Mr Tompkins slept through -- 12 Inside the Nucleus -- 13 The Woodcarver -- 14 Holes in Nothing -- 15 Mr Tompkins Tastes a Japanese Meal.
George Gamow's classic provides a delightful explanation of the central concepts in modern physics, from atomic structure to relativity, and quantum theory to fusion and fission. Roger Penrose's new foreword introduces Mr Tompkins to a new generation of readers, and reviews his adventures in the light of current developments in physics today.
9781139638180
Physics.
Electronic books.
QC71 -- .G25 1993eb
539
Mr Tompkins in Paperback. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (202 pages) - Canto Series . - Canto Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 City Speed Limit -- 2 The Professor's Lecture on Relativity which caused Mr Tompkins's dream -- 3 Mr Tompkins takes a holiday -- 4 The Professor's Lecture on Curved Space, Gravity and the Universe -- 5 The Pulsating Universe -- 6 Cosmic Opera -- 7 Quantum Billiards -- 8 Quantum Jungles -- 9 Maxwell's Demon -- 10 The Gay Tribe of Electrons -- 10½ A Part of the Previous Lecture which Mr Tompkins slept through -- 12 Inside the Nucleus -- 13 The Woodcarver -- 14 Holes in Nothing -- 15 Mr Tompkins Tastes a Japanese Meal.
George Gamow's classic provides a delightful explanation of the central concepts in modern physics, from atomic structure to relativity, and quantum theory to fusion and fission. Roger Penrose's new foreword introduces Mr Tompkins to a new generation of readers, and reviews his adventures in the light of current developments in physics today.
9781139638180
Physics.
Electronic books.
QC71 -- .G25 1993eb
539