"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface to the 2nd edition -- 1. Molecular symmetry -- 1.1. Symmetry operations and elements -- 1.2. Classification of molecular symmetry -- 1.3. Implications of symmetry2. Basic quantum mechanics -- 2.1. Wave functions specify a system's s…
"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Elementary reactions -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Elementary reactions -- 1.3. The rates of elementary reactions : energetic considerations -- 1.4. The rates of elementary reactions : simple collision theory and the Arrhenius …
"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. States of matter -- 1.2. Characteristics of the gas phase -- 1.3. Gases and vapours -- 1.4. Phase diagrams and phase transitions : under what conditions is a substance a gas?2. Pressure and temperature -- 2.1. Pressu…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- List of symbols -- Author biography -- Introduction to molecular spectroscopy and photophysicsThe electronic and nuclear structure of molecules -- Nuclear motions -- How far do the atoms move? -- Representations of the electronic and vibrational statesMechanism for the absorption of light -- State populations -…
"Version: 20150301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Author biography -- Brief theory of photoemission spectroscopy -- Quantum mechanics revisited -- Photoemission spectroscopy as a bound eigenvalue energy probe -- The photoemission process -- The three step mode…
"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Molecular symmetry -- Symmetry operations and elements -- Classification of molecular symmetry -- Implications of symmetryBasic quantum mechanics -- Wave functions specify a system's state -- Operators represent observables -- Schr?odinger's equation -- Measured and average valuesTranslation and vibration -- A …
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Background and nomenclature : the ideal gas -- van der Waals intermolecular interaction parametersThermodynamic variables and properties in terms of the van der Waals interaction parameters -- Helmholtz free energy -- Critical pressure, temperature and volume -- Entropy, inte…
"Version: 20230801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.part I. Gas-phase kinetics. 1. A review of basic concepts in chemical kinetics -- 1.1. Some basic definitions -- 1.2. The steady-state and equilibrium approximations -- 1.3. The temperature dependence of rate constants2. The Boltzmann distribution -- 2.1. Statistical ideas in molecular science -- 2.2. The Boltzm…
"Version: 20140801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.The authors -- Glossary of common terms -- Introduction -- The process matrix and how to determine it : quantum process tomography -- Model systems and energy scalesInteraction of light pulses with ensembles of chromophores : polarization gratings -- Laser-induced polarization gratings -- Induced linear and nonlinear pola…