The new World of Mr Tompkins : : George Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback
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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.
The layman is introduced to modern physics when a personable bank clerk, interested in scientific matters, has fantastic adventures.
Contents: Mr. Tompkins in paperback.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Year Published: 1999
Description: xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0521630096
9780521630092
0521639921
9780521639927
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Gamow, George, 1904-1968.
Edwards, Michael,
SUBJECTS
Physics.