This page contains links to documents providing background on various topics of interest to my research group.
These documents are based on lectures given in various classes I teach:
| Electrostatics of Continuous Media.doc Coulomb's law; Gauss's law; extensions to continua (from 06-712) |
| Polarization of Dielectrics.doc Electronic and Brownian polarization of molecules; free and induced charges (from 06-712) |
| Electrohydrodynamics.doc Gouy-Chapman model of electrical double layer; Smoluchowski's analysis of electroosmosis; electrophoresis; streaming potential (from 06-703) |
These documents contain applications of fundamental priniciples to various research related problems:
| Polarization Model.doc Slow evolution of polarization in low dielectric fluid. Attempt to provide theoretical basis for model used by Jun Kim et al. Langmuir 21, 8620 (2005). |