Physics of Soft and Biological Matter I

Exercises

Exercise can be found here. Exercise sheets 1,2 & 3 are associted with the first 5 lectures. The other exercise sheets are associated to the lectures about the same topic.

Lecture 01: Why materials are soft, introduction to thermodynamics

References:

H. Callen "Thermodynamics and an introduction to thermostatistics 2nd Ed."


Lecture 03: Ideal gas

References:

H. Callen "Thermodynamics and an introduction to thermostatistics 2nd Ed."


Lecture 04: Canonical Ensemble

References:

H. Callen "Thermodynamics and an introduction to thermostatistics 2nd Ed."


Lecture 05: Flory Huggins free energy

References: M. Doi "Soft Matter Physics"

Lecture 06: Electrolytes I (Poisson Boltzmann)

References:

D. Andelman "Introduction to Electrostatics in Soft and Biological Matter" in the book entitled “Soft condensed matter physics in molecular and cell biology” edited by W.C.K. Poon and D. Andelman

C. Herrero, L. Joly "Poisson-Boltzmann formulary"

D. Andelman addirtional reference




Lecture 07: Electrolytes II (Debye-Hueckel)

References:

D. Andelman "Introduction to Electrostatics in Soft and Biological Matter" in the book entitled “Soft condensed matter physics in molecular and cell biology” edited by W.C.K. Poon and D. Andelman

C. Herrero, L. Joly "Poisson-Boltzmann formulary"

Note: there is a typo in the final formula of lect7_1. The correct result is Eq.(64) in Andelman (be careful about the diverse notation and hence the factor 4\pi)

Lecture 08: Colloids I

References: “Introduction to colloidal systems” by D. Frenkel in the book entitled “Soft condensed matter physics in molecular and cell biology” edited by W.C.K. Poon and D. Andelman


Lecture 09: Colloids II

References: “Introduction to colloidal systems” by D. Frenkel in the book entitled “Soft condensed matter physics in molecular and cell biology” edited by W.C.K. Poon and D. Andelman

Video fo hard spheres crystallization



Lecture 10: Polymers I

References: "Polymer Physics" M. Rubinstein, R.H. Colby

End-to-end probability distribution



Lecture 11 : Polymers II

References: "Polymer Physics" M. Rubinstein, R.H. Colby



Lecture 12: Polymers III

References: "Polymer Physics" M. Rubinstein, R.H. Colby