Absorption and Dispersion of Sound in Critical Mixtures
- 15 April 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 36 (8), 1961-1964
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1732810
Abstract
The entropy previously associated with the long wavelength spectrum of composition fluctuations in the critical mixing region is studied under the supposition that the temperature varies harmonically with time. Relaxation effects in the response of the long range part of the radial distribution function to the temperature variation produce a complex heat capacity. The consequent sound absorption rises to a maximum at the critical point, in good quantitative agreement with experiment. The equation of motion for the radial distributions function is the modified diffusion equation previously used in a theory of the anomalous viscosity rise in the critical mixing region.Keywords
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