Student Video Modeling & Energy Analysis of Liquid Crystals
ATIF JAVED: Hey, 3016. Welcome to my final video project for the class. My presentation will be on Modeling and Energy Analysis of Liquid Crystals using Mathematica. So liquid crystals pervade many areas of technology in our world today, including the screen you may be watching this on. They're used in LCD displays, thermometers, surfactants, polymers, detergents, and even Kevlar. So the versatility of this phase of matter is what definitely piqued my interest and made me especially enthusiastic about this project as an opportunity also to explore this subject as a scientist would, imposing my own questions and then finding ways to answer them. So let's move on to the subject matter. Liquid crystals are the state of matter which retains properties from the conventional crystalline solid and the isotropic liquid state. So here you see an example of the crystalline solid. LC molecules are anisotropic, meaning that they exhibit properties with different effects when ...