Macromolecular Dynamics. An introductory lecture

This lecture has the following sections: Systems and States; Brownian Motion; Segmental Relaxation and the Glass Transition; Dynamics of a Free Chain; Entanglement and Reptation. Appendices cover: Linear response theory, relaxation, dissipation, fluctuation; Debye’s theory of dielectric relaxation; Zimm’s theory of chain dynamics in solution.