Liquid crystals through experiments / Mojca Čepič.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Čepič, Mojca, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 1.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 1]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liquid crystals.

Liquid crystals--Experiments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing.

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2014]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Professor Dr. Mojca Cepic started her career as a high school teacher of physics. After a few years she left the school and became a PhD student in a program financed by the Slovenian Agency for Science and Development called Young researchers and graduated in theoretical studies of soft matter physics, more precisely, by development of a phenomenological theoretical model describing phases in antiferroelectric liquid crystals at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. After finishing her PhD she started to work as an assistant for physics at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, where she has returned to teaching physics.

Summary:

"The aim of the textbook is to introduce liquid crystals into undergraduate courses of general physics. The main motivation for the introduction is the fact that every student spends a significant part of the day looking into liquid crystals hidden in screens of various products with LCD screens. How the LCD screen operates and what are the properties of these special materials called liquid crystals that enable the functioning of the screens. Next, the content of the textbook could be welcome to lecturers and students for illustration of some concepts in thermodynamics and more advanced optics. Liquid crystals as such form an important part of soft matter. So, the textbook can be used for demonstration and laboratory experiments that may accompany lectures on soft matter physics."

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Author biography

Liquid crystals

Experiments with liquid crystals

The liquid crystal display

Accompanying concepts

Elementary teaching module

Further reading.

Notes:

"Version: 20141201"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 4, 2014).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781627053006

9781627053013

OCLC:

902994444

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.