Dynamic Light Scattering: With Applications to Chemistry, Biology, and Physics

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
• Published by: Dover Publications; Unabridged edition August 14, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0486411559
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0486411552
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

Product Description
This comprehensive introduction to principles underlying laser light scattering focuses on time dependence of fluctuations in fluid systems. It also serves as introduction to theory of time correlation functions, with chapters on projection operator techniques in statistical mechanics. Over sixty text figures. 1976 edition.


Reader Reviews
Dynamic Light Scattering is a classic text, that presents a comprehensive and in-depth overview of the underlying physics and principles of DLS. The description is developed with the associated mathematics of fluctuations and time correlation functions, as well as various physical aspects of Brownian Motion. Examples drawn from physics, chemistry and biology are used to illustrate the usefullness of DLS in studying a diverse range of problems including cell motility, macromolecular dynamics, dynamics of anisotropics objects (rod-like particles, viruses), electrolytic solutions, etc. The book is ESSENTIAL for everyone with interest in 1) dynamics of complex fluids 2) Brownian Motion of particles and 3) Single Molecule Imaging! The text is a beautifully written treatise on various applications of DLS, with a very insightful commentary on how various dynamics is detected by light, how underlying structure and relaxations translate to observable, how observables can be deduced by mathematical principles based on statistical mechanics (including non-equilibrium thermodynamics). This is a fairly advanced text, so I would advise someone to get a soft introduction to his/her topic of choice (polymers, gels, rods, colloids, cells, polyelectrolytes, etc.) and basic statistical mechanics before picking this text. Being a Dover publication, the book is priced cheaper than it ought to be:), and hence must make its way to the shelf of people who have any lasting interest in DLS. The book by Wyn Brown is a useful supplementary text (and includes more modern references, but comes at a high price). This book is an exercise in the mathematics of correlation functions, and associated hydrodynamics equations, and definitely requires concerted effort to become beneficial to the reader.