Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION
- 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 tne universe
- 5 The Pulsating Universe
- 6 Cosmic Opera
- 7 Quantum Billiards
- 8 Quantum Jungles
- 9 Maxwell's Demon
- 10 The Gay Tribe of Electrons
- 10½ A Part of the Previous Lecture which Mr Tompkins slept through
- 12 Inside the Nucleus
- 13 The Woodcarver
- 14 Holes in Nothing
- 15 Mr Tompkins Tastes a Japanese Meal
1 - City Speed Limit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION
- 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 tne universe
- 5 The Pulsating Universe
- 6 Cosmic Opera
- 7 Quantum Billiards
- 8 Quantum Jungles
- 9 Maxwell's Demon
- 10 The Gay Tribe of Electrons
- 10½ A Part of the Previous Lecture which Mr Tompkins slept through
- 12 Inside the Nucleus
- 13 The Woodcarver
- 14 Holes in Nothing
- 15 Mr Tompkins Tastes a Japanese Meal
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- Mr Tompkins in Paperback , pp. 1 - 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012