Advances in Chemical Physics

The series is devoted to providing readers with general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, through comprehensive expert overviews of subjects of interest. Volume 91 contains seven contributions: atomic force microscopy of polymer films; intrinsic viscosity and the polarizability of particles having a wide range of shapes; the phenomenological and statistical thermodynamics of nonuniform systems; nonlinear dielectric and Kerr effect relaxation in alternating fields; predicting rare events in molecular dynamics; theoretical concepts in molecular photodissociation dynamics; and chaos in dissipative systems--understanding atmospheric physics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR