Spectra and Dynamics of Small Molecules
Alexander von Humboldt Lectures
Published on 14. April 2015
XII, 153 pages
978-3-319-15958-4 (ISBN)
Description
These seven lectures are intended to serve as an introduction for beginning graduate students to the spectra of small molecules. The author succeeds in illustrating the concepts by using language and metaphors that capture and elegantly convey simple insights into dynamics that lie beyond archival molecular constants. The lectures can simultaneously be viewed as a collection of interlocking special topics that have fascinated the author and his students over the years. Though neither a textbook nor a scholarly monograph, the book provides an illuminating perspective that will benefit students and researchers alike.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XII, 153 p. 33 illus., 6 illus. in color.
File size
3,55 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-15958-4 (9783319159584)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-15958-4
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Other editions
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Book
04/2015
Springer
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Person
Robert Field is the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at MIT. His research specialties include dynamics encoded in frequency domain spectra of small, gas phase molecules, at high excitation, where all standard energy level patterns are broken: spectroscopic perturbations, Rydberg states, and unimolecular isomerization. His favorite experimental techniques include Stimulated Emission Pumping and Chirped Pulse Millimeter Wave spectroscopy.
Content
Preface.- Introduction.- Hierarchy of Terms in the Effective Hamiltonian.- Spectroscopic Perturbations: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous.- The Effective Hamiltonian for Diatomic Molecules.- Rotation of Polyatomic Molecules.- Quantum Beats.- The Effective Hamiltonian for Polyatomic Molecule Vibration.- Intramolecular Dynamics: Representations ,Visualizations and Mechanisms.
