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Probabilistic Methods in Macromolecular Physics - NBCM209
Title: Pravděpodobnostní metody fyziky makromolekul
Guaranteed by: Department of Macromolecular Physics (32-KMF)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2021
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: RNDr. Viktor Holubec, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Petr Chvosta, CSc.
RNDr. Artem Ryabov, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: SOMI/MFF.CUNI.CZ (08.04.2008)
Inter alii, it includes the following chapters: universality and scaling, description of polymer chains, conformational statistics, path integrals in polymer physics, calculation of partition function, statistics of real chains, Flory theory, Brownian motion, Langevin equation, dynamics of flexible chains in solutions, Rouse and Zimm model, hydrodynamic interactions, phase transitions in polymer systems, coagulation phenomena, Monte Carlo algorithms in polymer physics.
Aim of the course -
Last update: SOMI/MFF.CUNI.CZ (08.04.2008)

Lecture develops specific tools and methods for theoretical analysis of systems of macromolecules. It broadens the introductory topics of thermodynamics and statistical physics.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: Ján Šomvársky, CSc. (10.10.2017)

Oral examination.

Literature -
Last update: SOMI/MFF.CUNI.CZ (08.04.2008)

[1] M. Rubinstein and R. H. Colby, Polymer Physics, Oxford (2003, reprinted 2004)

[2] M. Doi and S. F. Edwards, The Theory of Polymer Dynamics, Oxford (1988)

[3] P. de Gennes, Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics, Cornell (1979)

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Ján Šomvársky, CSc. (10.10.2017)

Requirements for oral exam correspond to syllabus in the extent presented on lectures.

Syllabus -
Last update: SOMI/MFF.CUNI.CZ (08.04.2008)

o Universality and scaling in polymer theory. Renormalization.

o Diffusion theory (stochastic process, path integral, Langevin, Fokker?Planck and Smoluchowski equation).

o Isolated Gaussian chain ? transition from discrete to continuous description.

o Isolated non-ideal chain (stiffness, excluded volume).

o Interaction of chain with solvent (Rouse and Zimm models).

o Model of copolymer ? calculation of partition function, phase transitions.

o Microscopic base of elasticity.

o Phase transitions ? microscopic theory in biopolymers.

o Kinetics of polymer networks growth. Differential equations and Monte Carlo simulations.

o Statistical description of polymer network structure ? theory of branching processes.

 
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