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MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008
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The goal of this course is to illustrate the spectroscopy of small molecules in the gas phase: quantum mechanical effective Hamiltonian models for rotational, vibrational, and electronic structure; transition selection rules and relative intensities; diagnostic patterns and experimental methods for the assignment of non-textbook spectra; breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation (spectroscopic perturbations); the stationary phase approximation; nondegenerate and quasidegenerate perturbation theory (van Vleck transformation); qualitative molecular orbital theory (Walsh diagrams); the notation of atomic and molecular spectroscopy. Instructor: Robert Field View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/5-80F08 *NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, Lecture 32 is not available. Album art photograph courtesy of Flickr user Jenny Spadafora. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jspad/
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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spectroscopy; harmonic oscillators; matrix; hamiltonian; heisenberg; vibrating rotor; Born-Oppenheimer; diatomics; laser schemes; angular momentum; hund's cases; energy levels; second-order effects; perturbations; Wigner-Eckart; Rydberg-Klein-Rees; rigid rotor; asymmetric rotor; vibronic coupling; wavepackets
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