14: Harmonic Oscillators and IR Spectroscopy, UCD Chem 110A by Delmar S. Larsen (updated 2022)

By Delmar S. Larsen.

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

Online text: chem.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_California_Davis/UCD_Chem_110A%3A_Physical_Chemistry__I/UCD_Chem_110A%3A_Physical_Chemistry_I_%28Larsen%29/Lectures/14%3A_Harmonic_Oscillators_and_IR_Spectroscopy

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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.