Overview

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.

Syllabus

MIT 5.80, Spring 2008 Faculty Introduction.
Lec 1 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 2 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 3 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 4 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 5 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 6 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 7 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 8 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 9 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 10 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 11 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 12 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 13 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 14 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 15 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 16 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 17 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 18 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 19 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 20 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 21 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 22 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 23 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 24 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 25 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 26 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 27 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 28 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 29 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 30 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 31 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 33 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 34 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 35 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 36 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 37 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.
Lec 38 | MIT 5.80 Small-Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Fall 2008.