Questions on Lecture 5 from 10 November 2015
1. What is the signal measured in dynamic light scattering?
2. How is the hydrodynamic radius of a single polymer determined?
3. What is a real chain?
4. How does the potential between to monomers look like?
Which possibilities are there?
5. How is the excluded volume calculated from the potential?
6. Which solvent qualities are distinguished ?
What is the excluded volume for the different cases ?
7. How does the end-to-end distance scale with
the degree of polymerization for a chain in a good solvent?