How Long to Read Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals

How Long Does it Take to Read Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 57 minutes to read Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals by Patrick Oswald

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity, hydrodynamics, defects, growth phenomena, and optics. Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments is a result of personal research and of the graduate lectures given by the authors at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the University of Paris VII, respectively. The book examines lamellar (smectic) and columnar liquid crystals, which, in addition to orientational order, possess 1D, 2D or 3D positional order. This volume illustrates original physical concepts using methodically numerous experiments, theoretical developments, and diagrams. Topics include rheology and plasticity, ferroelectricity, analogies with superconductors, hexatic order and 2D-melting, equilibrium shapes, facetting, and the Mullins-Sekerka instability, as well as phase transitions in free films and membrane vibrations. Nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals are covered by the authors in a separate volume entitled Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments. Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals is an ideal introduction and a valuable source of reference for theoretical and experimental studies of advanced students and researchers in liquid crystals, condensed matter physics, and materials science.

How long is Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals?

Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals by Patrick Oswald is 712 pages long, and a total of 179,424 words.

This makes it 240% the length of the average book. It also has 219% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 20 minutes to read Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals aloud.

What Reading Level is Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals?

Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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