Instructor: Reza
Ejtehadi
Time: Sunday and Tuesday, 10:30 – 12:00
Room: Physics 412
First lecture: Sunday, September 25st, 2005 (3
Mehr)
Last lecture: Sunday,
January 2th, 2006 (11 Day)
What does soft matter mean?
If you are not a "search engine", "spy
tool", or "machine
viewer" then you are a "soft matter machine".
To have a better idea about what
is categorized as soft matter I recommend you to read following articles:
1. M. E. Cate, Soft Condensed Matter,
cond-mat/0411650.
2. P. G. de Gennes, Soft Matter, Rev. Mod. Phys. 64,
645 (1992).
3. T. A. Witten, Insights from soft
condensed matter, Rev.
Mod. Phys. 71, S367 (1999).
Text books:
Soft
Condensed Matter by Richard A L
Jones.
Principles
of Condensed Matter Physics by P M Chaikin, T C Lubensky (sections
1,2 and 6).
Statistical Thermodynamics of Surfaces,
Interfaces, and Membranes by A Safran.
Further reading:
Soft
Matter Physics: An Introduction by Maurice Kleman, Oleg D
Laverntovich.
Biological
Physics by Philip Nelson.
Structured
Fluids: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants by Thomas A Witten.
Intermolecular and Surface Forces by J
Syllabus:
This is the first time that I
am going to lecture this course. I hope to be able to cover following subjects. The list is not
time ordered.
·
Soft
matter
·
Phase
transition
·
Colloids
·
Polymers
and Gels
·
Liquid
Crystals
·
Self
assembly
·
wetting
·
Membranes
·
Electrostatics
·
Biological
macromolecules
Marking:
· Homework 40%
· Final exam 60%
· Bonus; demonstrations 10%
Midterm exam:
· (Takehome)
Interaction between two coloidal particles with radial anchoring boundry
condition in a nematic liquid crystal. Following papers may be found helpful.
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http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v55/i3/p2958_1
· Due time: 84/9/29
Final exam:
· Due: January 10th, 5:00 PM