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Each submolecule will experience a frictional drag with the solvent represented by the frictional coefficient /0. This drag is related to the frictional coefficient of the monomer unit (0- If there are x monomer units per link then the frictional coefficient of a link is x(0- If we aPply a step strain to the polymer chain it will deform and its entropy will fall. In order to attain its equilibrium conformation and maximum entropy the chain will rearrange itself by diffusion. The instantaneous elastic response can be thought of as being due to an entropic spring . The drag on each submolecule can be treated in terms of the motion of the N+ 1 ends of the submolecules. We can think of these as beads linked... 

Classical anharmonic spring models with or without damping [9], and the corresponding quantum oscillator models seem well removed from the molecular problems of interest here. The quantum systems are frequently described in terms of coulombic or muffin tin potentials that are intrinsically anharmonic. We will demonstrate their correspondence after first discussing the quantum approach to the nonlinear polarizability problem. Since we are calculating the polarization of electrons in molecules in the presence of an external electric field, we will determine the polarized molecular wave functions expanded in the basis set of unperturbed molecular orbitals and, from them, the nonlinear polarizability. At the heart of this strategy is the assumption that perturbation theory is appropriate for treating these small effects (see below). This is appropriate if the polarized states differ in minor ways from the unpolarized states. The electric dipole operator defines the interaction between the electric field and the molecule. Because the polarization operator (eq lc) is proportional to the dipole operator, there is a direct link between perturbation theory corrections (stark effects) and electronic polarizability [6,11,12]. 

Equation (4-46) predicts that the stress-strain properties of an elastomer that behaves like an entropy spring will depend only on the temperature, the density of the material, and the average molecular weight between cross-links. In terms of nominal strain this equation is approximately... 

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This includes the Pauli repulsion and (attractive) dispersion terms. The polarizability of the ions is included using the shell model (Dick and Overhauser, 1964) which, as discussed in Chapter 3, models the polarizability using a massive core linked to a mass-less shell by a spring. The theoretical basis of this model is uncertain, but its practical success has been attested over 20 years. Probably the best way to consider it is as a sensible model for linking the electronic polarizability of the ions to the forces exerted by the surrounding lattice. It is therefore a many-body term, a fact that should be remembered if one wishes to consider three-body potentials in the description of the crystal. A recent development in the field has been the use of quantum calculations. These are discussed in detail elsewhere (Chapter 8) but some results will be compared with the classical simulations in this chapter. 

The final term in this potential model is that due to polarisation effects. In the solid environment there is likely to be some distortion of electron clouds due to the surrounding electric field, and this must be taken into account when modelling the interactions of an essentially ionic system. The polarisability in this case is modelled using the shell model of Dick and Overhauser. Here the atom is considered to consist of a massless charged shell, for the valence electrons, and a charged core. The two components are linked via a harmonic spring, and displacement of the valence electrons takes place with respect to the following equation... 

Another very important analytically solvable case is the harmonic oscillator. This term is used for a mechanical system in which potential energy depends quadratically on displacement from the equilibrium position. The harmonic oscillator is very important, as it is an interacting system (i.e., a system with nonzero potential energy), which admits an analytical solution. A diatomic molecule, linked by a chemical bond with potential energy described by Eq. (2), is a typical example that is reasonably well described by the harmonic oscillator model. A chain with harmonic potentials along its bonds (bead-spring model), often invoked in polymer theories such as the Rouse theory of viscoelasticity, can be described as a set of coupled harmonic oscillators. 

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