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  title info:
    title: Theory of Liquids and Other Disordered Media
    sub title: A Short Introduction
  name:
    name part: Schirmacher, Walter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 167 p. 55 illus., 36 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This set of lectures provides an introduction to the structure, thermodynamics and dynamics of liquids, binary solutions and polymers at a level that will enable graduate students and non-specialist researchers to understand more specialized literature and to possibly start their own work in this field. Part I starts with the introduction of distribution functions, which describe the statistical arrangements of atoms or molecules in a simple liquid. The main concepts involve mean field theories like the Perkus-Yevick theory and the random phase approximation, which relate the forces to the distribution functions. In order to provide a concise, self-contained text, an understanding of the general statistical mechanics of an interacting many-body system is assumed. The fact that in a classic liquid the static and dynamic aspects of such a system can be discussed separately forms the basis of the two-fold structure of this approach. In order to allow polymer melts and solutions to be discussed, a short chapter acquaints readers with scaling concepts by discussing random walks and fractals. Part II of the lecture series is essentially devoted to the presentation of the dynamics of simple and complex liquids in terms of the generalized hydrodynamics concept, such as that introduced by Mori and Zwanzig. A special topic is a comprehensive introduction of the liquid-glass transition and its discussion in terms of a mode-coupling theory.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I Structure and Thermodynamics -- Structure of Liquids -- Structure and Thermodynamics of Binary Mixtures (solutions) -- Random Walk and Diffusion -- Fractals -- Structure of Polymers -- Part II Dynamics -- Time-dependent Correlation and Response Functions -- Collective Excitations in Simple Liquids.- Diffusive Motion in Simple Liquids -- Polymer Dynamics -- Glass Transition and Glass Dynamics -- Conclusions: Take-home Messages -- References.
  note: by Walter Schirmacher.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physical chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Polymers
  subject:
    topic: Amorphous substances
  subject:
    topic: Complex fluids
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics
  subject:
    topic: Polymer Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Physical Chemistry
  classification: QC176.8.A44
  classification: 530.41
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Physics, 887
  identifier: 9783319069500
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06950-0
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