Brownian Motion Elements of Colloid Dynamics /

• Main Author: Philipse, Albert P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Physical chemistry.; Thermodynamics.; Fluids.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Physical Chemistry.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.

This textbook is an introduction to the Brownian motion of colloids and nano-particles, and the diffusion of molecules. One very appealing aspect of Brownian motion, as this book illustrates, is that the subject connects a broad variety of topics, including thermal physics, hydrodynamics, reaction k...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• A first round of Brownian motion
• The feverish Sphinx
• Kinetic theory.-. A tale of ten time scales.-Continuity, constitution and Fick's laws
• Brownian displacements
• Fluid flow
• Flow past spheres and simple geometries
• Encounters of the Brownian kind
• Randon walks in external fields
• Brownian motion and Van 't Hoff's law- Appendices: A. Moments, fluctuations and Gaussian integrals
• B. Summary vector calculus
• C. Answers to selected problems
• Index
• Greek/Roman symbols. .