I need a (soft) condensed matter physics textbook.
April 19, 2011 4:01 PM   Subscribe

I need a (soft) condensed matter physics textbook.

I'm working on a research project using particle tracking microrheology to characterize the viscoelastic behavior of biological systems, and it's become apparent that my background in soft condensed matter physics is lacking. I would like to find a textbook with a good introduction to viscoelastic behavior (moduli, etc) and things like shear thinning.
posted by pombe to Science & Nature (3 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Maybe check out Amazon reviews of books listed in course syllabi, like these or those? Or do you have access to any science/physics databases through a college/university library? Usually you can limit your search to document type = book review.
posted by unknowncommand at 5:44 PM on April 19, 2011


I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but a bunch of that is in Ron Larson's book, which is slightly dry, but quite good.
posted by lab.beetle at 7:31 PM on April 19, 2011


Best answer: Cell Mechanics, Volume 83 (Methods in Cell Biology) has a nice introductory chapter that covers soft matter rheology (plus very relevant further chapters by the field's superstars). I recently looked through Soft and Fragile Matter: Nonequilibrium Dynamics, Metastability and Flow, which collects notes from a summer class intended for newcomers. Finally, I have a number of great .pdf reviews of rheology basics that I'd be happy to forward (my research is quite similar to yours).
posted by Mapes at 7:51 PM on April 19, 2011


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