Introduction to Liquid Crystalline Structure - NBCM069
Title: Úvod do kapalně krystalického uspořádání
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: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Milan Marvan, CSc.
Classification: Physics > Biophysics and Chemical Physics
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Annotation -
Last update: T_KMF (23.05.2001)
Macroscopic theory: phase transition, influence of external field and surface energy of walls, dielectric and optical properties, hydrodynamics. Statistical physics ( Onsager, Flory, Maier -Saupe). Liquid crystalline polymers.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KMF (08.04.2008)

To give a review of application of thermodynamic and statistical physic to clarify liquid crystal properties.
Literature - Czech
Last update: RNDr. Pavel Zakouřil, Ph.D. (05.08.2002)

[1] P.G.De Gennes: The Physics Liquid Crystals

[2] A.C.Sonin: Vvedenie v fiziku židkich kristallov

Teaching methods - Czech
Last update: T_KMF (08.04.2008)

Přednáška nebo kontrolovaná četba
Syllabus -
Last update: T_KMF (15.05.2003)

Main types and properties Order parameters Phase transition from the point of Landau theory Distorted state and boundary effects Hydrostatics and hydrodynamics. Influence of electric and magnetic field Statistical physics (theory of Onsager, Flory, Maier-Saupe}. Liquid crystalline order in polymers