Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Reviser's Foreword
- Gamow's Preface to Mr Tompkins in Paperback
- 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 Notes of the Professor's Lecture on Curved Space
- 5 Mr Tompkins Visits a Closed Universe
- 6 Cosmic Opera
- 7 Black Holes, Heat Death, and Blow Torch
- 8 Quantum Snooker
- 9 The Quantum Safari
- 10 Maxwell's Demon
- 11 The Merry Tribe of Electrons
- 11½ The Remainder of the Previous Lecture through which Mr Tompkins Dozed
- 12 Inside the Nucleus
- 13 The Woodcarver
- 14 Holes in Nothing
- 15 Visiting the ‘Atom Smasher’
- 16 The Professor's Last Lecture
- 17 Epilogue
- Glossary
11 - The Merry Tribe of Electrons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Reviser's Foreword
- Gamow's Preface to Mr Tompkins in Paperback
- 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 Notes of the Professor's Lecture on Curved Space
- 5 Mr Tompkins Visits a Closed Universe
- 6 Cosmic Opera
- 7 Black Holes, Heat Death, and Blow Torch
- 8 Quantum Snooker
- 9 The Quantum Safari
- 10 Maxwell's Demon
- 11 The Merry Tribe of Electrons
- 11½ The Remainder of the Previous Lecture through which Mr Tompkins Dozed
- 12 Inside the Nucleus
- 13 The Woodcarver
- 14 Holes in Nothing
- 15 Visiting the ‘Atom Smasher’
- 16 The Professor's Last Lecture
- 17 Epilogue
- Glossary
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- The New World of Mr TompkinsGeorge Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback, pp. 140 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999