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The new world of Mr. Tompkins : George Gamow's classic Mr. Tompkins in paperback / fully revised and updated by Russell Stannard ; illustrated by Michael Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stannard, Russell, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Mr Tompkins is back! The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed and informed young and old alike since the publication of the hugely successful Mr Tompkins in Paperback (by George Gamow) in 1965. In this 1999 book, he returns in a new set of adventures exploring the extreme edges of the universe - the smallest, the largest, the fastest, the farthest. Through his experiences and his dreams, you are there at Mr Tompkins' shoulder watching and taking part in the merry dance of cosmic mysteries: Einstein's relativity, bizarre effects near light-speed, the birth and death of the universe, black holes, quarks, space warps and antimatter, the fuzzy world of the quantum, and that ultimate cosmic mystery of all ... love. This text is revised, updated and expanded by best-selling popular-science author Russell Stannard (who wrote the much-acclaimed Uncle Albert series of books for children).
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-316-13896-8
- 1-316-04764-4
- 0-521-63992-1
- 1-316-13958-1
- 1-316-14325-2
- 0-511-58169-6
- 0-511-00800-7
- 1-316-14240-X
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