Individual
course details |
Study programme |
Theoretical
and Experimental Physics |
Chosen research area (module) |
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Nature and level of studies |
Master
Studies |
Name of the course |
Polymer
Physics |
Professor (lectures) |
Suncica
Elezovic-Hadzic |
Professor/associate (examples/practical) |
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Professor/associate (additional) |
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ECTS |
10 |
Status
(required/elective) |
elective |
Access requirements |
Knowledge
in statistical mechanics |
Aims of the course |
Introducing
students to the contemporary polymer physics. |
Learning outcomes |
Students
will obtain a basic grasp of some of the key concepts and methods used in
polymer physics and learn to utilize them for analysis of various physical
phenomena in polymer systems. |
Contents of the course |
Lectures |
Basic
properties of polymers. Ideal polymer chain. Real polymer chain in a good
solvent. Universality and scaling concepts. Deforming ideal and real polymer
chains: tension, compression and adsorption. Flory theory of a polymer in
good and poor solvents, collaps transition. Polymer networks and gels:
percolation, branched polymers, mean-field and scaling models of
gelation. Basic models of polymer
dynamics. Relationships between polymer statistics and critical phenomena. |
Examples/ practical classes |
Problem
sets illustrating material presented in lectures. |
Recommended books |
1 |
"Polymer
Physics" M. Rubinstein and R.H. Colby, Oxford University Press
2003. |
2 |
"Scaling
Concepts in Polymer Physics" P.G. de Gennes, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell
University Press, 1979 |
3 |
"Introduction
to Polymer Physics" M. Doi, Clarendon Press 1996. |
4 |
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5 |
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Number of classes (weekly) |
Lectures |
Examples&practicals |
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Student
project |
Additional |
6 |
4 |
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Teaching and learning methods |
lectures,
consultations, homework assignments, presentations |
Assessment (maximal 100) |
assesed coursework |
mark |
examination |
mark |
coursework |
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written
examination |
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practicals |
20 |
oral
examination |
40 |
papers |
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presentations |
40 |
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