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Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics

Prof. Robert Field · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

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.

Lectures

Video Lectures

  1. Course Introduction 5 min · Video
  2. Lecture 1 1 h 5 min · Video
  3. Lecture 2 51 min · Video
  4. Lecture 3 1 h 6 min · Video
  5. Lecture 4 1 h 4 min · Video
  6. Lecture 5 57 min · Video
  7. Lecture 6 59 min · Video
  8. Lecture 7 1 h 1 min · Video
  9. Lecture 8 52 min · Video
  10. Lecture 9 57 min · Video
  11. Lecture 10 55 min · Video
  12. Lecture 11 55 min · Video
  13. Lecture 12 1 h 3 min · Video
  14. Lecture 13 59 min · Video
  15. Lecture 14 49 min · Video
  16. Lecture 15 49 min · Video
  17. Lecture 16 1 h · Video
  18. Lecture 17 51 min · Video
  19. Lecture 18 1 h · Video
  20. Lecture 19 43 min · Video
  21. Lecture 20 45 min · Video
  22. Lecture 21 53 min · Video
  23. Lecture 22 58 min · Video
  24. Lecture 23 52 min · Video
  25. Lecture 24 51 min · Video
  26. Lecture 25 59 min · Video
  27. Lecture 26 51 min · Video
  28. Lecture 27 54 min · Video
  29. Lecture 28 54 min · Video
  30. Lecture 29 57 min · Video
  31. Lecture 30 1 h 4 min · Video
  32. Lecture 31 1 h 4 min · Video
  33. Lecture 33 57 min · Video
  34. Lecture 34 1 h 2 min · Video
  35. Lecture 35 53 min · Video
  36. Lecture 36 55 min · Video
  37. Lecture 37 41 min · Video
  38. Lecture 38 51 min · Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Chemistry
Teacher
Prof. Robert Field
Term
Fall 2008
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and health
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. Robert Field. Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics. Fall 2008. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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