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Correction To The First (2003) Printing of The Textbook "Polymer Physics", Corrected in 2004-2006 Printings

This document provides corrections to pages and equations in the textbook "Polymer Physics". It lists over 50 specific corrections needed on various pages of the textbook, ranging from minor wording changes to entire replacements of problems. The corrections cover topics throughout the textbook, including corrections to equations, figure captions, problem statements, tables, and paragraphs of text.

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Correction To The First (2003) Printing of The Textbook "Polymer Physics", Corrected in 2004-2006 Printings

This document provides corrections to pages and equations in the textbook "Polymer Physics". It lists over 50 specific corrections needed on various pages of the textbook, ranging from minor wording changes to entire replacements of problems. The corrections cover topics throughout the textbook, including corrections to equations, figure captions, problem statements, tables, and paragraphs of text.

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Correction to the first (2003) printing of the textbook

Polymer Physics, corrected in 2004-2006 printings


PAGE 3: Above the middle equation such molecules weigh 28 000g or one
molecule weighs should we change it to the mass of Nav such molecules is 28
000g or the mass of one molecule is ?
PAGE 13: add to Eq. 1.21 = M/VNAv with script N as in Eq. 1.18.
PAGE 14: End of the first paragraph replace is necessary with arises: In
practice this ambiguity arises because polymer overlap occurs over a range of
concentrations.
PAGE 15: end of section 1.5.3 cut one collagen.
PAGE 27: middle of third paragraph should read membrane makes the chemical
potential the same on both sides of the membrane
PAGE 36: middle of third paragraph: cut space after infrared
PAGE 42: problem 1.25 Replace molar mass with mass in parts (i) and (ii) of the
problem and cut Mn and Mw.
PAGE 45: Problem 1.45 should read: Determine what moment of the molar mass
distribution is measured by
PAGE 53: Table 2.1 add at 413 K to the end of caption.
PAGE 63: Table 2.3 should read (Nb2/6) 89/125 instead of (Nb2/6) 89/625
PAGE 83: add [see Eq. (2.49)] to the end of the sentence below 2.146
PAGE 90: problem 2.8. replace part of text and equation 2.177 with the new equation
(see attached).
PAGE 94: Problem 2.41 Add , within a Gaussian approximation?
PAGE 96: Problem 2.47 Add reciprocal of the after the last the.
PAGE 114: add to the end of the Fig. 3.14 caption: Note that the conformation of a
dilute globule in a poor solvent is a random walk of thermal blobs up to the globule
size. There is almost no change in chain conformation at the length scale of a thermal
blob. Density fluctuations in space saturate at this length scale and the density of a
globule is uniform at length scales larger than the thermal blob.

PAGE 116: below Eq. 3.83 missing exponent 2: R2=Nb2.


PAGE 131: In problem 3.23 change the text to A is a dimensionless parameter
proportional to the Hamaker constant and also at the end effective polymer-surface
interaction parameter A.
PAGE 131: Problem 3.26 Replace use the scaling law by use the Flory theory.
PAGE 169-170: Replace Problem 4.22 with the new version (see attached page and
file Problem 4-22.tex)
PAGE 186: End of the first paragraph missing in smaller than in cyclohexane by

PAGE 186: modify the third sentence in section 5.5: grafted to the repulsive
surface in an
PAGE 188: modify the second sentence below Eq. 5.72: Notice that the integral in
Eq. (5.72) for >1/2 is dominated by the lower limit z=ads and therefore the adsorbed
amount is almost independent Note that we also added almost.
PAGE 196: Problem 5.26 ii Capital K on the second line of the page.
PAGE 196: Problem 5.26 In the last equations in part (ii) the first term is (lH-lD)2 not
(lH-l0)2
PAGE 196: Problem 5.26 In the last equations in part (ii) add superscript 2 between
square brackets ]2[.
PAGE 196: Problem 5.26 In the last equations in part (iii) the coefficient should be
(lH-lD)2 not (lH-l0)2
PAGE 210: Add +(f-3)/(2(f-2))2 after -)] to the second line of Equations 6.29
add (f-1)/(2(f-2)) in front of 2) in third and fourth lines of Eq. 6.29 and in Eq.
6.30.
PAGE 210 & 211: Add 2(f-2)/(f-1) in front of -2 in equation for N* above
equation 6.31 and in equation 6.34on page 211.
PAGE 216: Replace probability, with average number of bonds twice.
PAGE 223: add (f-1)/(2(f-2)) in front of 2) in Equations 6.76 and 6.77 and
replace Equation 6.80 with N* = ((2(f-2))/(f-1))2
PAGE 224 & 225: Add angular brackets in <Rg2> in Eqs. 6.83 and 6.85.

PAGE 225 & 226: add (f-1)/(2(f-2)) in front of 2) in Equations 6.88 and equation
6.88 on page 226,
PAGES 226 & 227: last sentence on page 226 continuing onto 227: spaces), ideal
randomly branched polymers become too dense as reflected in the overlap parameter
decreasing with degree of polymerization increasing is replaced by decreasing.
PAGE 227: Eq. 6.92 switch numerators and denominators and add minus sign to the
last superscript.
PAGE 231: add (f-1)/(2(f-2)) in front of 2) twice in equation 6.107
PAGE 232: add (f-1)/(2(f-2)) in front of z2) in Eq. 6.109,
PAGE 233: Add 2(f-2)/(f-1) and replace 1/(1-p/pc)2 with 2(f-2)/((f-1)(1/p/pc)2) in
Eq. 6.119,
PAGE 233: add (f-1)/(2(f-2)) in front of z2) in Eq. 6.120,
PAGE 233: replace eq.6.121 with z=-(1-p/pc)N1/2
PAGE 234: add for functionality of cross-links f=3. to figure caption of
Fig.6.28.
PAGE 248: problem 6.13 add without loops.
PAGE 249: problem 6.19 should read near the gel point, instead of at the gel
point.
PAGE 250: problem 6.27 Change crosslinking units to crosslinks Add
distribution function Replace wN(p) by w(p,N), where p has a hat!
PAGE 251: change values to p=0.4, 0.45, 0.48. Add Hint: Plot the cutoff function
against N/Nw.
PAGE 265: Cut a great. should read Since then many models of entanglement
have been proposed.
PAGE 283: below Eq. 7.99 Change into v in =v/h.
PAGE 298: Problem 7.18 Demonstrate that I1, I2, and I3 (defined in Eqs. 7.49, 7.50,
and 7.51) are invariant with respect to any change in coordinate system..
PAGE 300: End of problem 7.22 add in the limit n>>p. What is the mean-square
fluctuation of the junction point in the opposite limit (p>>n)?

PAGE 304: Problem 7.45 rephrase the end of the second sentence. When rapidly
cooled into the lamellar phase from the isotropic phase, the layers formed by diblock
copolymers are roughly parallel to each other locally.
PAGE 330: Fig. 8.11 vertical axis should have symbol sp
PAGE 341: sixth line from the bottom M>106 g/mol (add g/mol)
PAGE 352: Problem 8.5 (i) First sentence cut for diffusion.
PAGE 352: Problem 8.6 (i) rod polymers plural (cut a add s).
PAGE 357: Problem 8.29 (iii) replace 50 by 130 and add ... from initial
temperature T1=400 K
PAGE 364: replace 0 by v0 in denominator of Eq 9.17.
PAGE 368: replace b3 by v0 in denominator of Eq. 9.84.

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