Welcome to Soft Matter Physics Lecture Website!

Course Information:

• Course Information
• Instructors
• Resources

Lectures:

• Whirlwind recap of (equilibrium) statistical physics
  • Closed systems – microcanonical ensemble
  • Energy exchange – canonical ensemble
• Meaning of equilibrium
  • Partition function
• Spontaneous Reactions
• Equipartition
• When a Macrostate is a Microstate
• Particle exchange and chemical potential
  • Volume exchange and pressure
• Equilibration of the chemical potential
  • Phase equilibria
  • Chemical equilibria
• Osmotic Pressure
  • Shape of red blood cells
  • Reverse Osmosis

Most of the lecture materials held on Nov. 25 and later can be found on the Moodle course website. Below are some supplementary notebooks, containing numerics and simulations.

• Simulating Molecular Motors walking down a microtubule
  • In the co-moving frame
  • Diffusion equation without bias
  • Diffusion in two dimensions

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