Macromolecular Dynamics. An introductory lecture
arXiv:1103.4238
Abstract
This lecture has the following sections: Systems and States; Brownian Motion; Segmental Relaxation and the Glass Transition; Dynamics of a Free Chain; Entanglement and Reptation. Appendices cover: Linear response theory, relaxation, dissipation, fluctuation; Debye's theory of dielectric relaxation; Zimm's theory of chain dynamics in solution.
arXiv commentThis text appeared in: Macromolecular Systems in Soft and Living Matter, Lecture notes of the 42nd IFF Spring School 2011, edited by Jan K. G. Donth, Gerhard Gompper, Peter R. Lang, Dieter Richter, Marisol Ripoll, Dieter Willbold, Reiner Zorn. Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich, ISBN 978-3-89336-688-0, Jülich 2011