Basic Concepts for Simple and Complex Liquids
Jean-Louis Barrat, Jean-Pierre Hansen
£29.95
March 2003
| Paperback
(Hardback)
| 308 pages 57 line diagrams 1 table 27 exercises
| ISBN: 0521789532
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Presenting a unified approach to the liquid state, this book focusses
on the concepts and theoretical methods that are necessary for an understanding
of the physics and chemistry of the fluid state. The authors do not attempt
to cover the whole field in an encyclopedic manner. Instead, important ideas
are presented in a concise and rigorous style, and illustrated with examples
from both simple molecular liquids and more complex soft condensed matter
systems such as polymers, colloids, and liquid crystals. After a general
chapter introducing the liquid state, the book is in four parts devoted to:
thermodynamics; structure and fluctuations; phase transitions, interfaces
and inhomogeneous fluids; and, finally, transport and dynamics. Each chapter
introduces a new set of closely related concepts and theoretical methods,
which are then illustrated by a number of specific applications covering
a broad range of physical situations.
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Contents1. An introduction to liquid matter; Part I. Thermodynamics,
Structure and Fluctuations: 2. A reminder of thermodynamics; 3. Equilibrium
fluctuations; Part II. Phase Transitions: 4. Mean field approaches; 5. Critical
fluctuations and scaling; Part III. Interfaces and Inhomogeneous Fluids:
6. Macroscopic description of interfaces; 7. The density functional approach;
8. Curvature and fluctuations; Part IV. Dynamics: 9. Phenomenological description
of transport processes; 10. Brownian motion, diffusion and the Langevin equation;
11. Response and correlation functions; 12. Slow relaxations.
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