Mr Tompkins in Paperback
by Gamow, George; Hookham, John; Roger PenroseEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-03-26
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary
Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom. 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 foreword introduces Mr Tompkins to a new generation of readers, and reviews his adventures in light of recent developments in physics.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| City speed limit | |
| The Professor's lecture on relativity which caused Mr Tompkins's dream | |
| Mr Tompkins takes a holiday | |
| The Professor's lecture on curved space, gravity and the universe | |
| The pulsating universe | |
| Cosmic opera | |
| Quantum billiards | |
| Quantum jungles | |
| Maxwell's demon | |
| The gay tribe of electrons; 10 1/2. A part of the previous lecture which Mr Tompkins slept through | |
| Inside the nucleus | |
| The wood carver | |
| Holes in nothing | |
| Mr Tompkins tastes a Japanese meal | |
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