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Mr Tompkins in Paperback.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Canto SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993Copyright date: ©1993Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (202 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781139638180
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mr Tompkins in PaperbackDDC classification:
  • 539
LOC classification:
  • QC71 -- .G25 1993eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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