As is well known, approximate integral equations for liquids, such as the hypernetted chain (HNC) and Percus-Yevick (PY) theories, are in general thermodynamically inconsistent in the sense that the macroscopic properties obtained from the spatial correlation functions depend on the route followed. In particular, the values of the fourth virial coefficient B(4) predicted by the HNC and PY appro...

The existence of interactions among the particles of a system is a common situation in statistical physics, for instance in real gases or weak liquid solutions. On the one hand, these interactions limit the range of applicability of the ideal equation of state. On the other hand, they give rise to a whole new class of exciting phenomena, such as thermodynamic instability and metastability, phas...

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...

Prior studies of the viscosity of the subunit proteoglycan obtained by dissociative extraction of bovine nasal septum cartilage suggested that the proteoglycan subunit molecule behaves as a rigid rod in aqueous solution over the range of 0.5 to 4.0 M guanidine hydrochloride. A more direct view of dimension and shape can be obtained from light-scattering and viscosity of bovine nasal cartilage p...