{"product_id":"the-new-world-of-mr-tompkins-george-gamows-classic-mr-tompkins-in-paperback-hardback-9780521630092","title":"The New World of Mr Tompkins; George Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback (Hardback) 9780521630092","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe New World of Mr Tompkins\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGeorge Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn inspirational introduction to the physics of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeorge Gamow (Author), Russell Stannard (Edited by), Michael Edwards (Illustrated by), Wu Bozhe (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521630092, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 September 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 53 b\/w illus.  2 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.485 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Modern physics has never been explained in such an entertaining way.' School Science Review (Association for Science Education)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMr 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).\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRevisor's foreword\u003cbr\u003e Gamow's preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. City speed limit\u003cbr\u003e 2. The professor's lecture on relativity which caused Mr Tompkins' dream\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mr Tompkins takes a holiday\u003cbr\u003e 4. Notes of the professor's lecture on curved space\u003cbr\u003e 5. Mr Tompkins visits a closed universe\u003cbr\u003e 6. Cosmic opera\u003cbr\u003e 7. Black holes, heat death and blow torch\u003cbr\u003e 8. Quantum snooker\u003cbr\u003e 9. The quantum safari\u003cbr\u003e 10. Maxwell's demon\u003cbr\u003e 11. The merry tribe of electrons\u003cbr\u003e 11.1\/2. The remainder of the previous lecture through which Mr Tompkins dozed\u003cbr\u003e 12. Inside the nucleus\u003cbr\u003e 13. The woodcarver\u003cbr\u003e 14. Holes in nothing\u003cbr\u003e 15. Visiting the 'atom smasher'\u003cbr\u003e 16. The professor's last lecture\u003cbr\u003e 17. Epilogue.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Physics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Physics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Physics%20%5BPH%5D%22\"\u003ePH\u003c\/a\u003e], Popular science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Popular science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Popular%20science%20%5BPDZ%5D%22\"\u003ePDZ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001702895896,"sku":"9780521630092","price":79.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521630092i_57b22e72-9a80-499b-9a7c-9f68f062e1a3.jpg?v=1691379212","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-new-world-of-mr-tompkins-george-gamows-classic-mr-tompkins-in-paperback-hardback-9780521630092","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}