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A journey through soft materials, from everyday foams and gels to polymer networks and interfacial dynamics. We develop the conceptual and mathematical foundations to understand why soft matter behaves so differently from hard solids and liquids.
Subject notes
- Different Faces of Soft Condensed Matter
- Viscosity and Momentum Diffusion
- Soft Matter Instabilities
- Soft Matter Singularities
- Elastic, Viscous and Viscoelastic Behaviour
- Sheets, Bubbles and Drops
Course years
Dates, slides and assessment arrangements belong to each course year:
No prior knowledge of soft matter or materials science is required.