Mr Tompkins in Paperback

This classic provides a delightful explanation of the central concepts in physics, from atomic structure to relativity.

George Gamow (Author), Roger Penrose (Foreword by)

9781107604681, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 March 2012

198 pages
21.5 x 13.8 x 1.1 cm, 0.29 kg

'Will vastly fascinate the whimsical, and is also entirely scientific.' Scientific American

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Physics [PH]