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Record Nr.

UNINA9910736997703321

Autore

Mezzasalma Stefano A

Titolo

Interface science and technology . Volume 15 Macromolecules in solution and Brownian relativity / / Stefano A. Mezzasalma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; London, : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2008

ISBN

9786611370954

9781281370952

1281370959

9780080557984

0080557988

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Interface science and technology ; ; v. 15

Disciplina

547.7

530.413

Soggetti

Polymers

Macromolecules

Brownian movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Macromolecules in Solution and Brownian Relativity; Copyright page; TOCContents; Foreword; CHChapter 1. Classical and Relativistic Mechanics; 1. Historical Summary; 2. Analytical Mechanics; 3. Special Relativity; 4. Relativistic Mechanics; 5. General Relativity; 6. Particular Solutions and Reference Frames; Appendix A; Readings; CHChapter 2. The Special Theory of Brownian Relativity; 1. Brownian Motion and Diffusion (Notes); 2. Postulates of Brownian Relativity: Ideal Polymer and Universality; 3. Real Polymer in a Minkowskian Fluid; Readings

CHChapter 3. The General Theory of Brownian Relativity1. Geometric Approach to Polymers in Solution; 2. Statistical Gauge and Electromagnetic Analogy; 3. Outlook and Notes; Readings; CHChapter 4. The Covariant Scaling of Probability; 1. Vineyard's Van Hove Distribution Function; 2. From Molecule to Macromolecule: True Self-Avoiding Walk Polymer; 3. From Macromolecule to Molecule: Turbulence in Liquids; Readings; CHChapter 5. Fundamental Ideas for a Shape Mechanics; 1. Brownian Simultaneity and Uncertainty Relation; 2.



Lorentz-Poincaré Transformation: A Toy Model for Geometry

3. The Static Uncertainty Relation4. Materiality and Geometry of Energy; 5. n-Molecular Systems and Pairwise Potential; 6. The Shape-Mechanical Issue; 7. Outlook and Notes; Readings; IDXSubject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book illustrates the recent picture of statistical physics of polymers and polymer solutions that emerges from some paradigms of contemporary science joint together. Among its principal aims are discussing the consequences of a novel self-diffusion theory, which benefits from an extension towards relativistic-like principles, and the generalization of usual concepts met in polymer science in terms of geometry alone. The monograph gives the whole fundamentals necessary to handle the view proposed, which is set in the final chapters. All the formers see about to provide the reader with a co