Soft Matter

Concepts, Phenomena, and Applications

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Ch 1

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Ch 10

Backmatter

NOTE: Errata marked with a green checkbox ✅ have been corrected in the second printing of the book.
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Chapter 1. Fluid Dynamics

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20   ✅Section 1.1140 nanoseconds should become 140 picoseconds.
26   ✅Section 1.3.4In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the term V ρg should become ρg.
29   ✅1.5In the marginnote Gibbs-Duhem should be replaced by Gibbs.
30   ✅Section 1.5Onsager was awarded the Nobel prize in the 1968, not in 1967.
31   ✅Figure 1.9In the caption, replace Seebeck coefficient by Seebeck effect.
31   ✅Section 1.6.1in the second margin note, the term ∂vi∂xj+∂vj∂xi should be ∂vi/∂xj+∂vj/∂xi; moreover, add on after "constraints" earlier in the same sentence.
37   ✅Section 1.8In this section it is shown that the incompressibility condition (1.48) holds under many circumstances, when the typical length and time scales of the flow are such that their ratio is much smaller than the speed of sound. There can be exceptions though. Consider e.g. flow of a compressible gas through a channel with a thick porous medium. The large pressure difference across the channel will result in a large density gradient along the channel, so mass conservation implies that there will then also be a velocity gradient along the channel. This effect can be important in microfluidics.
36   ✅Section 1.19Replace Coriolis force by centrifugal force in the caption of Figure 1.11.
48   ✅Section 1.13.1in the sentence above (1.65) replace ɣsl by ɣsv .
51   ✅Section 1.14The term p0 in the equation of state is not the same as the one used background pressure used in studying bubble oscillations. It is better to replace p0 in the equation of state by (p0+ 2γ /R0 with p0 the same as the one used in studying bubble oscillations.
51   ✅Section 1.1.4Just above (1.69), replace (1.66) by (1.67).
55   ✅Box 1.In the third item where the Prandtl number is definited, thermal conductivity needs to be replaced by thermal diffusivity.
56   ✅Problem 1.2.bIn the marginnote Gibbs-Duhem should be replaced by Gibbs.
56   ✅Problem 1.2 Replace (1.18) by (1.17) three times: in the heading, in the first and in the last sentence.
56   ✅Problem 1.2.bChange entropy per unit volume by entropy per unit mass. Also, delete the word conservation in the first line.
57   ✅Problem 1.3the light blue regions should become the darker blue regions.
60   ✅Problem 1.9.bReplace uσ=σ/ρ0 by uσ=√(σ/ρ0).
60   ✅Problem 1.9.bReplace y/(ν/uσ) by y+=y/(ν/uσ).
61   ✅Problem 1.10.bthe term gzêz should be gêz.
61   ✅Problem 1.10.dequation (1.86) should be replaced by
.
62   ✅Problem 1.10.eremove the full stop after equation (1.87).
62   ✅Problem 1.10.fpertubations should be perturbations.
64   ✅Problem 1.12In the first sentence In this equation should become In this problem.
65   ✅Problem 1.13In the second row of equation (1.99), z1(r) should be z2(r).
66   ✅Problem 1.13In equation(1.103) the minus sign on the right hand side should be removed.
508   ✅Endnote 32600-800 should be replaced by 1200-1600.

Chapter 2. Elasticity 

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70   ✅Section 2.2Before and after equation (2.3), replace strain rate tensor by strain tensor.
70   ✅Section 2.2In the caption of Figure 2.6, uik should be replaced by uij.
71   ✅Section 2.3In the lowest marginnote, section I.2.2.b should become section I.2.2.a.
76   ✅Section 2.5A few lines below equation (2.23), delete As discussed in problem 2.1,.
78   ✅Section 2.6.2In the second marginnote, replace much less than by much larger than.
88   ✅Section 2.8.4In the last line of this section problems 2.2-2.4 should become problems 2.3 and 2.4.
88   ✅Figure 2.23The scale bar in the image should be 4 μm rather than 500 nm as suggested in the figure. Moreover, the snapshots are taken 60 seconds apart, not 4 seconds apart.
96   ✅Section 2.10.5The combination 3L3Δz/2 appears twice on this page. Both times the factor 3 should be deleted.
98   ✅Section 2.10.7.aReplace μ/K→∞ by μ/K→0, and likewise μ/K→0 by μ/K→∞.
102   ✅Section 2.11In the upper marginnote on this page, figure 2.37.c should become figure 2.37.b.
107   ✅Problem 2.1Change the title of problem 2.1. to Derivation of the equations for two simple models for time-dependent response: the Maxwell model and the Klevin-Voigt model.
107   ✅Problem 2.3 In the first line of the problem description, change force Fext ŷ direction direction into force -Fext ŷ.
108   ✅Problem 2.3.hThe condition which you should derive reads .
109   ✅Problem 2.5.aThe reference should be to equation (2.56) instead of to equation (2.57).
110   ✅Problem 2.7..rest length A should be ..rest length a.
113   ✅Problem 2.7.hIn equation (2.101) the term in the nummerator on the right hand side should read ∂2Dim.
116   ✅Problem 2.8.aAfter equation (2.122), replace strain rate tensor by strain tensor.
116   ✅Problem 2.7.pReplace k/2 by k/(2√3).
117   ✅Problem 2.8.cAfter equation (2.125), replace strain rate tensor by strain tensor.
117   ✅Problem 2.8.eIn the caption of figure 2.41, replace π/6 by π/3.
118   ✅Problem 2.8.gAdd the marginnote Note that in the field of liquid crystals, it is common to write the defect strength s in units of 1/2. We follow that different convenction in Chapter 6.
118   ✅Problem 2.8.g Replace the sentence between brackets after (2.134) into (i.e., s=2π/6 corresponds to five nearest neighbors, s=−2π/6 corresponds to seven). Also, take out the factor 2π/6 from equation (2.134) and the factor π/3 from equation (2.135.
118   ✅Problem 2.8.gChange collection of dislocations into collection of disclinations.
509   ✅Endnote 4is still 11 should be replaced by is still 13.
509   ✅Endnote 19Fel,x = Fext should be replaced by Fel,x = -Fext.
511   ✅Endnote 45The reference to the paper Miskin and Jaeger, 2013 should be replace a reference to Goodricht et al., 2015.

Chapter 3. Brownian motion, Thermal Fluctuations, and Diffusion

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127   ✅Section 3.25In equation (2.34) take out the term Γ-1 in the left equation. Furthermore, add the lower integration boudary -∞ to the integral in the right equation. In (3.25) replace 2γΓ by γ/Γ.
128   ✅Section 3.3.5.In equation (3.38), add a factor D to the right hand side.
133   ✅Section 3.3.6Replace the last line ("Quite.... term.") of section 3.3.6 by Nevertheless, as the prefactor itself does not depend on the temparature (as D is proportional to T), the temperature dependence of the transition rate comes completely from the exponential term.
134   ✅Section 3.4In the right hand side of equation (3.43), kBT should be replace by 2kBT in the exponent of the expression for Wnn'.
147   ✅Problem 3.1.aChange as follows. The into through steps a and b below. Start by checking that the
151   ✅Problem 3.6.dThe derivatives d/dx should be replaced by partial deriviatives ∂/∂x.
153   ✅Problem 3.8kT should become kBT in equations (3.88) and (3.89).
160   ✅Problem 3.11In the marginnote, section 3.7.2 should become section 3.6.1.
511   ✅Endnote 3Replace law of large numbers by central limit theorem.

Chapter 4. Colloids

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191   ✅Problem 4.3.eintroducting shoud be introducing.
199   ✅Problem 4.11... boiling of water, melting a two-dimensional crystal, and the onset of ferromagnetism. shoud be ... the critical points of liquids, critical liquid demixing, and the onset of ferromagnetism.
201   ✅Equation (4.63)delete the comma after the first row.

Chapter 5. Polymers

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204   ✅Figure 5.2In the caption François Tournillac should be François Tournilhac.
249   ✅Equation (5.90)s1 – s2 should become |s1 - s2|.

Chapter 6. Liquid Crystals

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278   ✅Section 6.6.1.aAdd the marginnote Note that we here follow the liquid crystal literature by defining the defect strength s in units of 1/2, whereas in elastic media units of π/3 are used (see problem 2.18 and chapter 7).
296   ✅Problem 6.1.ea in equation (6.58) should be replaced by D.
297   ✅Problem 6.2.dnote that the expression you are asked to derive is actually for the entropy per unit volume.
303   ✅Problem 6.8.bThe definition  
  is not correct. It should be replaced by:  

Chapter 7. Interfaces, Surfaces and Membranes

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335   ✅Problem 7.5.c h=bχ should be h → bχ h.
337   ✅Problem 7.8 see section .a should be see section 7.4.1.a.
343   ✅Problem 7.11After equation (2.122), replace strain rate tensor by strain tensor.

Chapter 8. Pattern Formation out of Equilibrium

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367   ✅Figure 8.14In the figure, in the right panel zero wavelength should be zero wavenumber.
367   ✅fourth row of second paragraph"...it is a zero wavelength..." should be "...it is a zero wavenumber...".
369   ✅lowest margin note for this case g<0 should be for the case g<0
397   ✅Problem 8.3step j should be labeled f.
398   ✅Problem 8.4Note that steps d, e and f can best be solved together.
398   ✅Problem 8.4.eIn the last sentence of the paragraph, zero wavelength should be zero wavenumber.
398   ✅Problem 8.5in the upper row of equation (8.85): the term (b+1) should be replaced by (b+1)u1.
401   ✅Problem 8.8.eequation (8.8) should be equation (8.9).

Chapter 9. Active Matter

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411   ✅5 lines below (9.12) polarizatation should become polarization.
414   ✅1st sentence of 2nd paragraph gate should become gait.
419   ✅Figure 9.12The scale bar in the top figure denotes 100 micron rather than 15 micron.
444   ✅Problem 9.2.j All the terms involving J in equation (9.102) should be replaced by 2πJ. In addition, ∂z should be substituted with
∂z̄ and vice versa in all terms.
445 Problem 9.3Note that (9.107) unfortunately has the opposite sign of α from that used in the main text of chapter 9, and in the previous problem 9.2.k.
We keep the different sign in the solution worked out in the solution manual, and, for consistency between the versions, also in problem 9.3 in second printing of the book.
447   ✅Problem 9.3.hThe expression (9.120) for c2(θ) is wrong. It should be
.
449   ✅Problem 9.4.c…into (9.125) should become …into (9.126).
451   ✅Problem 9.5.eand linearize (9.137) should be and linearize (9.138).
453   ✅Problem 9.7.eThe full stops before equations (9.152) and (9.153) should be removed. In equation (9.153) both logarithms should be
natural logarithms ln, and divided by the length scale L that first appears in equation (9.151).
453   ✅Problem 9.7.e In equation (9.153) a term 1/n should be included in the summand (i.e., insert a term 1/n between the summation sign and the term in brackets). In addition log should be replaced by the natural logarithm ln twice.
458   ✅Problem 9.12.d Find the intersections of κ3 some constant with f(θ). should be Find the intersections of κ3 = const. and κ3= f(θ).
459   ✅Problem 9.12.iThis problem duplicates 9.12.e and can be skipped.
NB: the problem has been deleted in the second printing.

Backmatter

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578   ✅figure 4.14.aE.R Week should be E. R. Weeks.
578   ✅figure 5.2F. Tournillac should be F. Tournilhac.
579   ✅figure 9.13N. Fahkri should be N. Fakhri.
579   ✅figure 9.23H. Tullier should be H. Turlier.