 14: Harmonic Oscillators and IR Spectroscopy, UCD Chem 110A by Delmar S. Larsen

By Delmar S. Larsen.

Published in UCD Chem 110A: Physical Chemistry I, Lectures.

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Cited passages: Lecture 14, introductory recap and infrared-activity section: dipole change and adjacent-level selection; Lecture 14, introductory recap: dipole-change criterion; the identical-nuclei case follows here by symmetry; Lecture 14, overtone section, Table 1 and following potential-expansion discussion.