Mr. Tompkins in paperback / by George Gamow ; illustrated by the author and John Hookham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gamow, George, 1904-1968, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Hookham, John, illustrator.

Series:

Canto classics.

Canto classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-89393-9

1-107-41443-1

1-107-39063-X

1-107-39543-7

1-107-38771-X

1-107-60468-0

1-107-29564-5