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  title info:
    title: Introduction to Symmetry and Group Theory for Chemists
  name:
    name part: Lesk, Arthur M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 122 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book is based on a one-semester course for advanced undergraduates specializing in physical chemistry. I am aware that the mathematical training of most science majors is more heavily weighted towards analysis – typ- ally calculus and differential equations – than towards algebra. But it remains my conviction that the basic ideas and applications of group theory are not only vital, but not dif?cult to learn, even though a formal mathematical setting with emphasis on rigor and completeness is not the place where most chemists would feel most comfortable in learning them. The presentation here is short, and limited to those aspects of symmetry and group theory that are directly useful in interpreting molecular structure and spectroscopy. Nevertheless I hope that the reader will begin to sense some of the beauty of the subject. Symmetry is at the heart of our understanding of the physical laws of nature. If a reader is happy with what appears in this book, I must count this a success. But if the book motivates a reader to move deeper into the subject, I shall be grati?ed.
  table of contents: The Relationship between Group Theory and Chemistry -- Symmetry -- Group Theory -- Point Groups — The Symmetry Groups of Small Molecules -- to Linear Algebra -- Group Representations and Character Tables -- Molecular Vibrations -- Electronic Structure of Atoms and Molecules -- Symmetry Properties of Molecular Orbitals; Correlation Diagrams -- Spectroscopy and Selection Rules -- Molecular Orbital Theory of Planar Conjugated Molecules -- Conclusion.
  note: by Arthur M. Lesk.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Physical chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Atoms
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Physical Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
  classification: QD450-882
  classification: 541
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      title: Springer eBooks
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