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Assume that the shape of a liquid crystal molecule can be modeled by a hard spherocylinder of diameter \(\sigma \) and length d. An orientationally perfectly ordered sample is confined between two parallel plates.

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Skačej, G., Ziherl, P. (2019). Entropy. In: Solved Problems in Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27661-4_10

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