Stannard, Russell.

The new world of Mr. Tompkins Russell Stannard - New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. - 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrations

Gamow's Preface to Mr Tompkins in Paperback City Speed Limit The Professor's Lecture on Relativity which Caused Mr Tompkins's Dream Mr Tompkins takes a Holiday The Notes of the Professor's Lecture on Curved Space Mr Tompkins Visits a Closed Universe Cosmic Opera Black Holes, Heat Death, and Blow Torch Quantum Snooker The Quantum Safari Maxwell's Demon The Merry Tribe of Electrons The Remainder of the Previous Lecture through which Mr Tompkins Dozed Inside the Nucleus The Woodcarver Holes in Nothing Visiting the 'Atom Smasher' The Professor's Last Lecture xi -- 1 1 -- 2 10 -- 3 24 -- 4 45 -- 5 59 -- 6 69 -- 7 81 -- 8 91 -- 9 113 -- 10 123 -- 11 140 -- 11 1/2 155 -- 12 164 -- 13 175 -- 14 187 -- 15 196 -- 16 229.

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