Liquids and Solids / Student Physics Series (PDF)

6. 2 Creeping viscous flow in a semi-infinite channel 140 6. 3 Poiseuille flow in tubes of circular cross-section 144 6. 4 Motion of a Newtonian liquid between two coaxial cylinders 148 151 6. 5 Bodies in liquids 6. 6 liquid flow and intermolecular forces 154 Non-Newtonian liquids 157 6. 7 6. 8 Viscometers 160 Chapter 7 Surface effects 163 7. 1 Introduction 163 7. 2 Excess surface free energy and surface tension of liquids 163 7. 3 The total surface energy of liquids 167 7. 4 Surface tension and intermolecular forces 168 7. 5 Solid surfaces 171 7. 6 Specific surface free energy and the intermolecular potential 172 7. 7 liquid surfaces and the Laplace-Young equation 174 7. 8 liquid spreading 178 7. 9 Young's relation 181 7. 10 Capillary effects 184 7. 11 The sessile drop 187 7. 12 Vapour pressure and liquid-surface curvature 189 7. 13 The measurement of surface free energies 191 Chapter 8 High polymers and liquid crystals 197 8. 1 Introduction 197 8. 2 High polymers 197 8. 3 The mechanisms of polymerisation 198 8. 4 The size and shape of polymer molecules 199 8. 5 The structure of solid polymers 201 8. 6 The glass transition temperature 203 8. 7 Young's modulus of solid polymers 205 Stress-strain curves of polymers 8. 8 206 8. 9 Viscous flow in polymers 209 liquid crystals 8.