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The new world of Mr. Tompkins : George Gamow's classic Mr. Tompkins in paperback /
The layman is introduced to modern physics when a personable bank clerk, interested in scientific matters, has fantastic adventures.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gamow's Preface to Mr Tompkins in Paperback xi
- 1 City Speed Limit 1
- 2 The Professor's Lecture on Relativity which Caused Mr Tompkins's Dream 10
- 3 Mr Tompkins takes a Holiday 24
- 4 The Notes of the Professor's Lecture on Curved Space 45
- 5 Mr Tompkins Visits a Closed Universe 59
- 6 Cosmic Opera 69
- 7 Black Holes, Heat Death, and Blow Torch 81
- 8 Quantum Snooker 91
- 9 The Quantum Safari 113
- 10 Maxwell's Demon 123
- 11 The Merry Tribe of Electrons 140
- 11 1/2 The Remainder of the Previous Lecture through which Mr Tompkins Dozed 155
- 12 Inside the Nucleus 164
- 13 The Woodcarver 175
- 14 Holes in Nothing 187
- 15 Visiting the 'Atom Smasher' 196
- 16 The Professor's Last Lecture 229.