3 credit hours

Prerequisite : 412:580 or consent of instructor

Physical Chemistry of Polymers

Configuration and conformation of isolated polymer chains, distribution of chain dimensions, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of polymer solutions, dilute solutions hydrodynamics, scattering and diffraction.

Rubber elasticity, birefringence, the glass transition phenomena, crystallization thermodynamics and kinetics, and orientation.

Dr. S.A. Jabarin is the instructor.