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"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
- Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations
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 Format: Textbook Paperback, 186 pages
Edition: Older Edition
Publisher: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge
ISBN: 0521447712
Release Date: Jan 3, 1999
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
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First appearing over 50 years ago, George Gamow's Mr. Tompkins became known and loved by thousands of readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic adventures lead him into a world inside the atom. A new Foreword by Roger Penrose introduces Mr. Tompkins to a new generation of readers and reviews his adventures in light of current developments in physics.
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-- Stephen Harris, a student reading Electronics, August 23, 2000
| |  | | | | Foreword | | | Preface | | | Introduction | | | 1 | City Speed Limit | 1 | | 2 | The Professor's Lecture on Relativity which caused Mr Tompkins's dream | 9 | | 3 | Mr Tompkins takes a holiday | 19 | | 4 | The Professor's Lecture on Curved Space, Gravity and the Universe | 31 | | 5 | The Pulsating Universe | 44 | | 6 | Cosmic Opera | 55 | | 7 | Quantum Billiards | 65 | | 8 | Quantum Jungles | 85 | | 9 | Maxwell's Demon | 95 | | 10 | The Gay Tribe of Electrons | 112 | | 10 1/2 | A Part of the Previous Lecture which Mr Tompkins slept through | 128 | | 12 | Inside the Nucleus | 136 | | 13 | The Woodcarver | 149 | | 14 | Holes in Nothing | 166 | | 15 | Mr Tompkins Tastes a Japanese Meal | 177 |
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