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Entropic force in polymers
According to my textbook, the elastic force in a rubber is caused to the tendency of the polymers to return to their initial disordered state of higher entropy.
But isn't this looking at entropy on ...
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Semiflexible discrete polymer chain
Suppose we have a 2D polymer model described by a set of 2D vectors {$\mathbf{t}_i$} ($i=1,2,\dots N$) of length $a$.
The energy of the polymer is given by:
$$
\mathcal{H}~=~-k\sum^N_{i=1}\mathbf{t}...
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