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Home > Courses > Chemistry > Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics > Video Lectures

Video Lectures


Video lectures files.
LEC # TOPICS
1 Matrices are useful in spectroscopic theory
2 Coupled harmonic oscillators: truncation of an infinite matrix
3 Building an effective hamiltonian
4 Atoms: 1e- and alkali
5 Alkali and many e- atomic spectra
6 Many e- atoms
7 How to assign an atomic spectrum
8 The Born-Oppenheimer approximation
9 The Born-Oppenheimer approach to transitions
10 The Born-Oppenheimer approach to transitions II
11 Pictures of spectra and notation
12 Rotational assignment of diatomic electronic spectra I
13 Laser schemes for rotational assignment first lines for Ω', Ω" assignments
14 Definition of angular momenta and | A α MA >, evaluation of HROT

15 2∏ and 2∑ matrices
16 Parity and e/f basis for 2∏, 2∑±
17 Hund's cases: 2∏, 2∑± examples
18 Perturbations
19 Second-order effects
20 Transformations between basis sets: 3-j, 6-j, and Wigner-Eckart theorem
21 Construction of potential curves by the Rydberg-Klein-Rees method (RKR)
22 Rotation of polyatomic molecules I
23 Asymmetric top
24 Pure rotation spectra of polyatomic molecules
25 Polyatomic vibrations: normal mode calculations
 
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