On completion of this tutorial you should:
- understand what is meant by the glass transition in amorphous polymers, and its causes
- understand kinetic and thermodynamic analyses of the formation of glasses
- appreciate that the value of the glass transition temperature depends on the method of measurement, and also on the strain rate or cooling or heating rate
- understand how the glass transition affects the properties of rubber
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