Syllabus
CM4655
Polymer Rheology Laboratory

Prof. Faith A. Morrison
Reading Assignments are from Morrison, Understanding Rheology, Oxford, 2001

week	Lecture	topic	reading	assignment
1	Lecture 1	Introduction	Ch 1, 4
2	Lecture 2 Watch capillary flow demo DVD	Shear Viscosity of polymer melt - capillary flow	Ch 6.1, 10.1.1. Goettfert manual; watch Goettfert DVD
3	Lab w/ supervision	Shear Viscosity of polymer melt - capillary flow		HW1
4	Lab Lecture 3 Elongation	Shear Viscosity of polymer melt - capillary flow
5	Lab			Report 1
6	Lab	Elongational viscosity of a polymer melt - Cogswell and Binding	Ch 4.3-4.5; 5.3.1, 10.2
7	Lecture 4 SAOS	Shear Viscosity of polymer melt - steady torsional flow; SAOS	Ch 5.1-5.2.2.2, 7.2.2, 10.1.2-4; Bohlin manual; Excel fitting handout, Watch Bohlin DVD	Report 2
8	Lab	Shear Viscosity of polymer melt - steady torsional flow; SAOS
9	Lab	Shear Viscosity of polymer melt - steady torsional flow; SAOS
10	Lab	Shear Viscosity of polymer melt - steady torsional flow; SAOS	Ch 5.2.2.5, 6.2; Bohlin manual	HW2
11	Lecture 5 LVE Fit
12	Lab	LVE calcuations on data from SAOS	pp281-284; handout	Report 3
13	Lab	LVE calcuations on data from SAOS
14	Lab			Report 4
Finals

Last Updated on 04 September 2009
By Prof. Faith A. Morrison