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The ideal chain or freely jointed chain is assumed. Each monomeric addition can orient the new monomeric repeat group in any direction (no constraint on angle) and growing polymer chain can polymerize through space occupied by polymer (no excluded volume).

To grow each new monomer, spherical coordinates are used, setting r=1 and making θ and φ random angles (in radians) from 0 to 2π.

100 units are polymerized. The displacement length (see End to End Distance) is calculated and reduced to an integer. The process rounds all numbers down.

Clicking a button below adds the number of polymers requested to the growing distribution. Clicking "1 polymer" several times shows the randomness of the displacement lengths (end to end distances). Clicking "1000 polymers" or "5000 polymers" adds polymers much faster.
    For 5000, the browser program may give a message that a script is taking a long time, and ask if you want to abort the script. If you choose "no" the polymerizations will continue. For most computers, the total time should be less than a minute.



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average length:
the experiment has not yet started
Work has stopped at this point. The next objective is to find a theory to justify an average end to end distance of around 9.15 to 9.20.

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