Mr Tompkins in Paperback (Canto Classics)

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-107-60468-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 262 g

Reihe: Canto Classics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gamow, George

Weitere Mitwirkende

Penrose, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Roger Penrose
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
10 1/2. A part of the previous lecture which Mr Tompkins slept through
12. Inside the nucleus
13. The wood carver
14. Holes in nothing
15. Mr Tompkins tastes a Japanese meal.

Über Autor(innen)

Gamow, George
George Gamow (1904 to 1968) was not only one of the most influential physicists of the twentieth century (one of the founders of the Big Bang theory) but was also a master at science popularisation. Of his many popular books, the best known is Mr Tompkins in Paperback (1965).