Jones, Richard A L

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Soft Condensed MatterR.A.L. JONESDepartment of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of SheffieldOXFORDUNIVERSITY PRESSContents1 Introduction and overview	 11.1 What is soft condensed matter? 	 11.2 Soft matter—an overview	 22 Forces, energies, and timescales in condensed matter	52.1 Introduction	 52.2 Gases, liquids, and solids 	 52.2.1 Intermolecular forces 	 52.2.2 Condensation and freezing	 82.3 Viscous, elastic, and viscoelastic behaviour 	 102.3.1 The response of matter to a shear stress 	 102.3.2 Understanding the mechanical response of matter at amolecular level	 132.4 Liquids and glasses	 162.4.1 Practical glass-forming systems 	 162.4.2 Relaxation time and viscosity in glass-forming liquids 	 172.4.3 The experimental glass transition 	 182.4.4 Understanding the glass transition	 213 Phase transitions	 253.1 Phase transitions in soft matter 	 253.2 Liquid–liquid unmixing—equilibrium phase diagrams 	 263.2.1 Interfaces between phases and interfacial tension	 313.3 Liquid–liquid unmixing—kinetics of phase Separation 	 323.3.1 Two mechanisms of phase separation	 323.3.2 Spinodal decomposition	 333.3.3 Nucleation	 373.3.4 Growth in the Tate stages of phase separation 	 383.4 The liquid–solid transition—freezing and melting 	 413.4.1 Kinetics of the liquid–solid transition—homogeneousnucleation	 423.4.2 Kinetics of the liquid–solid transition—heterogeneousnucleation	 443.4.3 Solidification—stability of a growing solidification front 454 Colloidal dispersions 494.1 Introduction	 494.2 A single colloidal particle in a liquid—Stokes' law and Brownianmotion	 50

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