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Converting order parameter to director (nematics)
If I have a differential equation for the order parameter of a uniaxial nematic, like
$\frac{\partial S_{\alpha \beta}}{\partial t} = f(S_{\alpha \beta})$,
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Using Persistence length to establish straightness of position data
In the following picture I am showing 3D position data for 4 different tracks just to illustrate how the tracks looks like.
As we can see that we have all kind of behaviors occurring from helical ...
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Text Recommendation: Random Walks (for physicists)
I am an incoming graduate student in Theoretical Physics in the Netherlands, and I would like to know if any of you could recommend texts on random walks with applications to physics. My university ...
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Derivation of the upper convected time derivative
I read on wikipedia theat the upper convected time derivatvie is the rate of change of some tensor property of a small parcelof fluid that is written in the coordinate system rotating and stretching ...
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Does crosslinking a polymer film increase the stress within the film?
If I crosslink a polymer film, does that increase the internal stress of the film? Intuitively I think it should for entropy reasons; chains with greater links are more restricted and have a smaller ...
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