Molecular Physics: Theoretical Principles and Experimental Methods

This advanced textbook comprehensively explains important principles of diatomic and polyatomic molecules and their spectra in two separate, distinct parts. The first part concentrates on the theoretical aspects of molecular physics, whereas the second part of the book covers experimental techniques, i.e. laser, Fourier, NMR, and ESR spectroscopies, used in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and material science.
Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students in physics and chemistry with a knowledge of atomic physics and familiar with the basics of quantum mechanics.


Spis treści:
Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. Molecules Electronic States.
3. Rotation, Vibration, and Potential Curves of Diatomic Molecules.
4. Spectra of Diatomic Molecules.
5. Molecule Symmetries and Group Theory.
6. Rotation and Vibrations of Polyatomic Molecules.
7. Electronic States of Polyatomic Molecules.
8. Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules.
9. Breakdown of the Born–Oppenheimer–Approximation, Perturbations in Molecular Spectra.
10. Molecules in External Fields.
11. Van der Waals Molecules and Clusters.
12. Experimental Techniques in Molecular Physics.
Appendix: Charcter Tables of Some Point Groups.
Bibliography.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Professor Wolfgang Demtröder studied physics and mathematics, and received his PhD degree in 1961 from the University of Bonn. After working as an assistant professor and researcher at the University of Freiburg until 1967, he went as a visiting fellow to JILA in Boulder, Colorado. In 1970 he accepted a post as full professor at the newly founded University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he still works. Professor Demtröder was awarded the Max–Born–Award of the English and German Physical Society in 1995. He is the author of about 150 scientific papers and several books.

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This advanced textbook comprehensively explains important principles of diatomic and polyatomic molecules and their spectra in two separate, distinct parts. The first part concentrates on the theoretical aspects of molecular physics, whereas the second part of the book covers experimental techniques, i.e. laser, Fourier, NMR, and ESR spectroscopies, used in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and material science.
Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students in physics and chemistry with a knowledge of atomic physics and familiar with the basics of quantum mechanics.