UCAS ay Mae TD Le UL a) INTRODUCTION Xe MOWAT eeNATEIntroduction to Polymer Physics M. DOI Department of Applied Physics Nagoya University, Japan Translated by H. SEE This publication was supported by a gencrous donation from the Daido Life Foundation. CLARENDON PRESS -OXFORDOxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6OP Oxfund New York Athens Auclland Bangkok Bogota Bombay Buenos Aves Caleutia Cape Town Dar es Salaam Deihi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobt Faris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toront Warsaw and assuckaied companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford ts a trade mark of Oxford University Press Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc.. New York Koubuashi Butsuri Polymer Physics) by Masao Doi Copyright © 1992, 1995 by Masao Doi Originally published in Japanese bry fwanani Shoten Publishers, Tokyo 7992 Translation © Howard See, 1995 First published by Oxford University Press 1996 Reprinted 1997 All rights reserved. No part of thix publication may he reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ar transmitted, in any form ox by any means, without the prior permission in welting of Oxford University Press, Within tite UK, exceptions are allowed in reypect of any Jair dealing for the purpose of research or private study, or criticism or review, ax permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patenis Act, 1988, or in the cave of reprographic repraductien in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Ageney: Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms aad ia other countries should be sent (0 the Rights Depariment, Oxford University Press. at the address above. This hook és sold subject io the condition that it shat! not, sy way of trade or oiherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, ur otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding ‘or cover other than that in which itis published and without «similar condition including this condition being imposed tam the subsequent purchaser A catalogue record for this hook is avaitable from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Dasa Diate avaiable ISBN 0 19 851789 0 (Pbk) Printed in Great Britain by Biddtes Lid, Guitdjord und King’s Lynn