329 CHEM
Introduction: characterization of electromagnetic radiation, quantization of energy,regions of spectrum, representation of spectrum, basic elements of practical spectroscopy, signal-tonoise, resolving power, width and intensity of spectral lines. Microwave spectroscopy: rotation of molecules, rotational spectra, diatomic molecules.
Infra-red spectroscopy: vibrating diatomic molecule, diatomic vibrating rotator, vibration-rotation spectrum of carbon monoxide, breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, interaction of rotations and vibrations.
Electronic spectroscopy of atoms: structure of atoms, electronic angular momentum, multi-electron atoms, angular momentum of multi-electron atoms.
Spin resonance spectroscopy: spin and applied field, nuclear magnetic spectroscopy, electron magnetic spectroscopy. Group Theory: Molecular symmetry and the symmetry, representation of groups, applications