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xiv, 370 pages : 23 cm Includes index pt. I. Treatment of molecular vibrations by classical mechanics. A simple example to illustrate the application of classical mechanics -- Approximations in the treatment of molecular vibrations using mechanical models -- Matrices and their relevant properties -- Vectors and matrices -- Classical treatment of the molecular vibrational problem using internal coordinates -- Setting up the G matrix -- Symmetry point groups and matrix representations of them -- Irreducible representations and the character table of a group -- Orthogonality properties of irreducible representations -- The number of distinct normal vibrational frequencies of a molecule and their symmetry species -- Projection operators and their use for the complete reduction of group representations -- Internal symmetry coordinates and the factoring of the vibrational secular equation -- An example of treatment by classical mechanics: the normal vibrations of the BF3 molecule -- Isotopic product rules -- Force fields and the problem of calculating force constants from observed frequencies -- The calculation of vibrational normal coordinates -- pt. II. The quantum-mechanical treatment

Author
Leonard Ary Woodward
Publisher
Oxford: Clarendon Press
Published
1972
Language
EN
ISBN
9780198553526
Subjects
Science, Physics, Stem

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