Soft Matter Physics

Selected lecture notes and problems from Soft Matter Physics (PHY 625), taught by Gerhard Müller at the University of Rhode Island.

Some Relevant Textbooks and Monographs:

R. A. L. Jones: Soft condensed matter. Oxford University Press 2002.
I. W. Hamley: Introduction to soft matter. Wiley, New York 2007.
M. Daoud and C. E. Williams (Eds.): Soft matter physics. Springer, New York 1999.
W. Hu and A.-C. Shi (Eds.): Understanding soft condensed matter via modeling and computation. World Scientific, Singapore 2011.
A. V. Finkelstein and O. P. Ptitsyn: Protein physics. Academic Press, New York 2002.
M. Doi: Soft matter physics. Oxford University Press 2013.
T. A. Witten: Structured fluids -- polymers, colloids, surfactants. Oxford University Press 2004.
P. Nelson: Biological physics. Freeman, New York 2004.
A. Y. Grosberg and A. R. Khokhlov: Statistical physics of macromolecules. AIP Press, New York 1994.
Henrik Bruus: Theoretical microfluidics. Oxford University Press 2008.
L.S. Hirst: Fundamentals of soft matter science. CRC Press, London 2013.
J. V. Selinger: Introduction to the theory of soft matter. Springer, New York 2016.
M. Kleman and O. D. Lavrentovich: Soft matter physics. Springer, New York 2003.
I. Teraoka: Polymer solutions -- an introduction to physical properties. Wiley Interscience, New York 2002.
Jan Kierfeld: Theorie weicher und biologischer Materie. Lecture notes, Technische Universität Dortmund 2009.

Do you have a questions about any of the problems? Do you need a hint? Do you wish to suggest additional problems? Do you have a question about the lecture notes? Did you find any mistakes? Drop a note to gmuller@uri.edu