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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 637)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Experiments with rubber balloons and rubber sheets have led to surprising observations, some of them hitherto unknown or not previously described in the literature. In balloons, these phenomena are due to the non-monotonic pressure-radius characteristic which makes balloons a subject of interest to physicists engaged in stability studies. Here is a situation in which symmetry breaking and hysteresis may be studied analytically, because the stress-stretch relations of rubber - and its non-convex free energy - can be determined explicitly from the kinetic theory of rubber and from non-linear elasticity. Since rubber elasticity and the elasticity of gases are both entropy-induced, a rubber balloon represents a compromise between the entropic tendency of a gas to expand and the entropic tendency of rubber to contract. Thus rubber and rubber balloons furnish instructive paradigms of thermodynamics. This monograph treats the subject at a level appropriate for post-graduate studies.
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From the reviews:
'...Rubber and Rubber Balloons is an engaging supplement for courses on statistical mechanics or soft condensed matter physics. It provides a simple and familiar setting in which to explore some of the most important ideas of those subjects." (Michael Marder, PHYSICS TODAY, August 2005)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rubber and Rubber Balloons
Book Subtitle: Paradigms of Thermodynamics
Editors: Ingo Müller, Peter Strehlow
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b93853
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20244-8Published: 25 March 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05782-3Published: 05 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45223-2Published: 21 February 2004
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 123
Topics: Classical and Continuum Physics, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Engineering, general, Solid Mechanics