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| Preface to first edition | |
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| Preface to second edition | |
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| Preface to third edition | |
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| Preface to fourth edition | |
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| Units, dimensions and conventions | |
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| Fundamental constants | |
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| Useful conversion factors | |
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| Some important results in quantum mechanics | |
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| Spectroscopy and quantum mechanics | |
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| The evolution of quantum theory | |
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| The Schrodinger equation and some of its solutions | |
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| The Schrodinger equation | |
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| The hydrogen atom | |
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| Electron spin and nuclear spin angular momentum | |
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| The Born-Oppenheimer approximation | |
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| The rigid rotor | |
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| The harmonic oscillator | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Electromagnetic radiation and its interaction with atoms and molecules | |
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| Electromagnetic radiation | |
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| Absorption and emission of radiation | |
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| Line width | |
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| Natural line broadening | |
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| Doppler broadening | |
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| Pressure broadening | |
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| Power, or saturation, broadening | |
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| Removal of line broadening | |
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| Effusive atomic or molecular beams | |
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| Lamb dip spectroscopy | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| General features of experimental methods | |
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| The electromagnetic spectrum | |
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| General components of an absorption experiment | |
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| Dispersing elements | |
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| Prisms | |
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| Diffraction gratings | |
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| Fourier transformation and interferometers | |
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| Radiofrequency radiation | |
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| Infrared, visible and ultraviolet radiation | |
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| Components of absorption experiments in various regions of the spectrum | |
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| Microwave and millimetre wave | |
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| Far-infrared | |
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| Near-infrared and mid-infrared | |
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| Visible and near-ultraviolet | |
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| Vacuum- or far-ultraviolet | |
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| Other experimental techniques | |
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| Attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy and reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy | |
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| Atomic absorption spectroscopy | |
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| Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy | |
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| Flash photolysis | |
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| Typical recording spectrophotometers for the near-infrared, mid-infrared, visible and near-ultraviolet regions | |
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| Exercise | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Molecular symmetry | |
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| Elements of symmetry | |
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| @n-Fold axis of symmetry, C[subscript n] | |
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| Plane of symmetry, [sigma] | |
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| Centre of inversion, i | |
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| @n-Fold rotation-reflection axis of symmetry, S[subscript n] | |
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| The identity element of symmetry, I (or E) | |
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| Generation of elements | |
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| Symmetry conditions for molecular chirality | |
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| Point groups | |
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| C[subscript n] point groups | |
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| S[subscript n] point groups | |
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| C[subscript nv] point groups | |
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| D[subscript n] point groups | |
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| C[subscript nh] point groups | |
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| D[subscript nd] point groups | |
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| D[subscript nh] point groups | |
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| T[subscript d] point group | |
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| O[subscript h] point group | |
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| K[subscript h] point group | |
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| I[subscript h] point group | |
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| Other point groups | |
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| Point group character tables | |
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| C[subscript 2v] character table | |
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| C[subscript 3v] character table | |
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| C[subscript infinity]v] character table | |
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| I[subscript h] character table | |
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| Symmetry and dipole moments | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Rotational spectroscopy | |
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| Linear, symmetric rotor, spherical rotor and asymmetric rotor molecules | |
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| Rotational infrared, millimetre wave and microwave spectra | |
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| Diatomic and linear polyatomic molecules | |
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| Transition frequencies or wavenumbers | |
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| Intensities | |
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| Centrifugal distortion | |
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| Diatomic molecules in excited vibrational states | |
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| Symmetric rotor molecules | |
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| Stark effect in diatomic, linear and symmetric rotor molecules | |
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| Asymmetric rotor molecules | |
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| Spherical rotor molecules | |
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| Interstellar molecules detected by their radiofrequency, microwave or millimetre wave spectra | |
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| Rotational Raman spectroscopy | |
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| Experimental methods | |
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| Theory of rotational Raman scattering | |
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| Rotational Raman spectra of diatomic and linear polyatomic molecules | |
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| Nuclear spin statistical weights | |
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| Rotational Raman spectra of symmetric and asymmetric rotor molecules | |
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| Structure determination from rotational constants | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Vibrational spectroscopy | |
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| Diatomic molecules | |
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| Infrared spectra | |
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| Raman spectra | |
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| Anharmonicity | |
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| Electrical anharmonicity | |
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| Mechanical anharmonicity | |
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| Vibration-rotation spectroscopy | |
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| Infrared spectra | |
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| Raman spectra | |
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| Polyatomic molecules | |
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| Group vibrations | |
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| Number of normal vibrations of each symmetry species | |
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| Non-degenerate vibrations | |
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| Degenerate vibrations | |
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| Vibrational selection rules | |
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| Infrared spectra | |
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| Raman spectra | |
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| Vibration-rotation spectroscopy | |
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| Infrared spectra of linear molecules | |
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| Infrared spectra of symmetric rotors | |
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| Infrared spectra of spherical rotors | |
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| Infrared spectra of asymmetric rotors | |
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| Anharmonicity | |
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| Potential energy surfaces | |
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| Vibrational term values | |
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| Local mode treatment of vibrations | |
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| Vibrational potential functions with more than one minimum | |
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| Inversion vibrations | |
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| Ring-puckering vibrations | |
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| Torsional vibrations | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Electronic spectroscopy | |
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| Atomic spectroscopy | |
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| The periodic table | |
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| Vector representation of momenta and vector coupling approximations | |
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| Angular momenta and magnetic moments | |
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| Coupling of angular momenta | |
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| Russell-Saunders coupling approximation | |
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| Non-equivalent electrons | |
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| Equivalent electrons | |
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| Spectra of alkali metal atoms | |
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| Spectrum of the hydrogen atom | |
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| Spectra of helium and the alkaline earth metal atoms | |
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| Spectra of other polyelectronic atoms | |
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| Electronic spectroscopy of diatomic molecules | |
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| Molecular orbitals | |
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| Homonuclear diatomic molecules | |
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| Heteronuclear diatomic molecules | |
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| Classification of electronic states | |
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| Electronic selection rules | |
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| Derivation of states arising from configurations | |
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| Vibrational coarse structure | |
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| Potential energy curves in excited electronic states | |
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| Progressions and sequences | |
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| The Franck-Condon principle | |
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| Deslandres tables | |
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| Dissociation energies | |
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| Repulsive states and continuous spectra | |
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| Rotational fine structure | |
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| [superscript 1 Sigma]-[superscript 1 Sigma] electronic and vibronic transitions | |
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| [superscript 1 Pi]-[superscript 1 Sigma] electronic and vibronic transitions | |
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| Electronic spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules | |
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| Molecular orbitals and electronic states | |
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| AH[subscript 2] molecules | |
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| [angle]HAN=180[degree] | |
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| [angle]HAH=90[degree] | |
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| Formaldehyde (H[subscript 2]CO) | |
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| Benzene | |
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| Crystal field and ligand field molecular orbitals | |
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| Crystal field theory | |
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| Ligand field theory | |
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| Electronic transitions | |
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| Electronic and vibronic selection rules | |
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| Chromophores | |
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| Vibrational coarse structure | |
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| Sequences | |
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| Progressions | |
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| Totally symmetric vibrations | |
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| Non-totally symmetric vibrations | |
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| Rotational fine structure | |
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| Diffuse spectra | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Photoelectron and related spectroscopies | |
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| Photoelectron spectroscopy | |
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| Experimental methods | |
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| Sources of monochromatic ionizing radiation | |
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| Electron velocity analysers | |
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| Electron detectors | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Ionization processes and Koopmans' theorem | |
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| Photoelectron spectra and their interpretation | |
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| Ultraviolet photoelectron spectra of atoms | |
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| Ultraviolet photoelectron spectra of molecules | |
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| Hydrogen | |
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| Nitrogen | |
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| Hydrogen bromide | |
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| Water | |
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| Benzene | |
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| X-ray photoelectron spectra of gases | |
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| X-ray photoelectron spectra of solids | |
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| Auger electronand X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy | |
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| Auger electron spectroscopy | |
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| Experimental method | |
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| Processes in Auger electron ejection | |
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| Examples of Auger electron spectra | |
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| X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy | |
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| Experimental method | |
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| Processes in X-ray fluorescence | |
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| Examples of X-ray fluorescence spectra | |
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| Extended X-ray absorption fine structure | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Lasers and laser spectroscopy | |
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| General discussion of lasers | |
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| General features and properties | |
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| Methods of obtaining population inversion | |
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| Laser cavity modes | |
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| Q-switching | |
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| Mode locking | |
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| Harmonic generation | |
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| Examples of lasers | |
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| The ruby and alexandrite lasers | |
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| The titanium-sapphire laser | |
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| The neodymium-YAG laser | |
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| The diode or semiconductor laser | |
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| The helium-neon laser | |
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| The argon ion and krypton ion lasers | |
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| The nitrogen (N[subscript 2]) laser | |
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| The excimer and exciplex lasers | |
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| The carbon dioxide laser | |
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| The dye lasers | |
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| Laser materials in general | |
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| Uses of lasers in spectroscopy | |
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| Hyper Raman spectroscopy | |
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| Stimulated Raman spectroscopy | |
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| Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy | |
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| Laser Stark (or laser electron resonance) spectroscopy | |
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| Two-photon and multiphoton absorption | |
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| Multiphoton dissociation and laser separation of isotopes | |
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| Single vibronic level, or dispersed, fluorescence | |
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| Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) | |
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| Cavity ring-down spectroscopy | |
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| Femtosecond spectroscopy | |
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| Spectroscopy of molecules in supersonic jets | |
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| Properties of a supersonic jet | |
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| Fluorescence excitation spectroscopy | |
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| Single vibronic level, or dispersed, fluorescence spectroscopy | |
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| Zero kinetic energy photoelectron spectroscopy | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Character tables | |
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| Symmetry species of vibrations | |
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| Index of Atoms and Molecules | |
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| Subject Index | |