Mr Tompkins in Paperback
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Mr Tompkins in Paperback

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Mr Tompkins in Paperback

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 City Speed Limit
  10. 2 The Professor's Lecture on Relativity which caused Mr Tompkins's dream
  11. 3 Mr Tompkins takes a holiday
  12. 4 The Professor's Lecture on Curved Space, Gravity and the Universe
  13. 5 The Pulsating Universe
  14. 6 Cosmic Opera
  15. 7 Quantum Billiards
  16. 8 Quantum Jungles
  17. 9 Maxwell's Demon
  18. 10 The Gay Tribe of Electrons
  19. 10½ A Part of the Previous Lecture which Mr Tompkins slept through
  20. 12 Inside the Nucleus
  21. 13 The Woodcarver
  22. 14 Holes in Nothing
  23. 15 Mr Tompkins Tastes a Japanese Meal