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The Glass Transition in Polymers

This teaching and learning package is based on a lecture demonstrations used within the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. The package is aimed at first year undergraduate Materials Science students and focuses on the glass transition in polymers.

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Aims
Introduction
Theory 1
Theory 2 - kinetics vs thermodynamics
Measurement of T_g
Demonstrations
Summary
Questions
Going further

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First created: April 2004. Last updated: February 2009.



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