Title Rubber and Rubber Balloons : Paradigms of Thermodynamics Author(s) M??ller, Ingo;Strehlow, Peter Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. Description VII, 123 p : online resource Abstract Note 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 ISBN,Price 9783540452232 Keyword(s) 1. Amorphous substances 2. Classical and Continuum Physics 3. Complex fluids 4. Continuum physics 5. EBOOK 6. EBOOK - SPRINGER 7. ENGINEERING 8. Engineering, general 9. MECHANICS 10. Mechanics, Applied 11. Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics 12. Solid Mechanics Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I10691     On Shelf