A basic postulate used by Treloar and by the author in recent theories of rubber elasticity is reexamined and its equivalent is derived from more fundamental considerations. The postulate dealt with the distribution of molecular lengths in a sample of strained rubber. Equations of state for rubber-like materials are derived by using the conventional methods of statistical mechanics. The results are found to be equivalent to those obtained by other means.
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