Mechanics of gelation distinction between a sol (solution) and a gel therefore appears to be understood in a manner analogous to the practical distinction between the elastic and plastic deformation ranges of a metal. The distinction lies in the ability to respond to an applied shear force via macroscopic viscous flow. In a dynamic sense, the response of a gel to an alternating force (oscillation or vibration) will depend upon the period or frequency of vibration. As indicated here, even most simple liquids will exhibit some elastic response at shear rates or frequencies exceeding 5 x 10 cycles per second. Experiments on such
Shannon capacity of a graph no two of these code words can be confused with each other. By using this method, in "n" steps of communication, the sender can communicate up to 5 messages, significantly more than the 2 that could be transmitted with the simpler one-digit code. The effective number of values that can be transmitted per unit time step is (5) = . In graph-theoretic terms, this means that the Shannon capacity of the 5-cycle is at least . As showed, this bound is tight: it is not possible to find a more complicated system of code words that allows even more different