an analytical equation of state was applied to calculate the thermodynamic properties for argon.the equation of state is that of song and mason. it is based on a statistical-mechanical perturbationtheory of the hard convex bodies and can be written as fifth-order polynomial in the density. thereexist three temperature-dependent parameters: the second virial coefficient, an effective molecularvo...

A theory is set up of spherical proteins interacting by screened electrostatics and constant adhesion, in which the effective adhesion parameter is optimized by a variational principle for the free energy. An analytical approach to the second virial coefficient is first outlined by balancing the repulsive electrostatics against part of the bare adhesion. A theory similar in spirit is developed ...

We employ state-of-the-art pair and three-body potentials with path-integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) methods to calculate the third density virial coefficient C(T) for helium. The uncertainties are much smaller than those of the best experimental results, and approximately one-fourth the uncertainty of our previous work. We have extended our results in temperature down to 2.6 K, incorporating the ef...

2014 We study the interactions between flexible and rodlike macromolecules in solution. If the solvent is a good solvent for the flexible chain, a mean-field theory can be used and the mutual virial coefficient is proportional to the product of the masses of the two polymers. If the solvent is a 03B8 solvent, the two polymers interact as hard spheres when the space dimension is slightly smaller...

The second virial coefficient B2(T ) for particles which interact with each other through a Chern-Simons type coupling has been of considerable interest in recent years. In particular its form has been derived for both the spin zero [1] and spin-1/2 cases [2] as a function of the flux parameter α. More recently results have been obtained for the case of a gas of spinless non-Abelian Chern-Simon...

An interactive program is described for calculating the second virial coefficient contribution to the thermodynamic nonideality of solutions of rigid macromolecules based on their triaxial dimensions. The FORTRAN-77 program, available in precompiled form for the PC, is based on theory for the covolume of triaxial ellipsoid particles [Rallison, J. M., and S.E Harding. (1985). J. Colloid Interfac...

We derive an analytical expression of the second virial coefficient of d-dimensional hard sphere fluids confined to slit pores by applying Speedy and Reiss' interpretation of cavity space. We confirm that this coefficient is identical to the one obtained from the Mayer cluster expansion up to second order with respect to fugacity. The key step of both approaches is to evaluate either the surfac...

Using a programmable mixing pump, light scattering flow chamber, refractive index detector, and single capillary viscometer, the batch (unfractionated) characterization of polymers in solution has been automated. Three different schemes to produce polymer concentration gradients were used, and values for weight average mass Mw, root mean square radius of gyration ^S & , second virial coefficien...

We derive path-integral expressions for the second and third virial coefficients of monatomic quantum gases. Unlike previous work that considered only Boltzmann statistics, we include exchange effects (Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac statistics). We use state-of-the-art pair and three-body potentials to calculate the third virial coefficient of (3)He and (4)He in the temperature range 2.6-24.5561 ...