Molecular symmetry and group theory : a programmed introduction to chemical applications / Alan Vincent.
By: Vincent, Alan
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BookPublisher: Chichester : Wiley, c2001Edition: 2nd ed.Description: x, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0471489387; 9780471489382; 0471489395 (PBK); 9780471489399.Subject(s): Molecular theory | Symmetry (Physics) | Group theory | Chemistry | Groups & group theory | Maths for engineers | Quantum & theoretical chemistryDDC classification: 541.22 VIN Summary: To help students learn at their own pace this book takes a programmed learning approach. The reader goes through a series of carefully constructed exercises, designed to lead them through the mathematics, and give them a full understanding of how this relates to the chemistry.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This substantially revised and expanded new edition of the bestselling textbook, addresses the difficulties that can arise with the mathematics that underpins the study of symmetry, and acknowledges that group theory can be a complex concept for students to grasp.
Written in a clear, concise manner, the author introduces a series of programmes that help students learn at their own pace and enable to them understand the subject fully. Readers are taken through a series of carefully constructed exercises, designed to simplify the mathematics and give them a full understanding of how this relates to the chemistry.
This second edition contains a new chapter on the projection operator method. This is used to calculate the form of the normal modes of vibration of a molecule and the normalised wave functions of hybrid orbitals or molecular orbitals.
The features of this book include:
* A concise, gentle introduction to symmetry and group theory
* Takes a programmed learning approach
* New material on projection operators, and the calcultaion of normal modes of vibration and normalised wave functions of orbitals
This book is suitable for all students of chemistry taking a first course in symmetry and group theory.
Previous ed.: 1997.
To help students learn at their own pace this book takes a programmed learning approach. The reader goes through a series of carefully constructed exercises, designed to lead them through the mathematics, and give them a full understanding of how this relates to the chemistry.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface to the Second Edition (p. vii)
- How to use the Programmes (p. ix)
- Programme 1 Symmetry Elements and Operations (p. 1)
- Objectives (p. 1)
- Programme text (p. 2)
- Test (p. 17)
- Revision notes (p. 21)
- Programme 2 Point Groups (p. 22)
- Objectives (p. 22)
- Programme text (p. 23)
- Test (p. 42)
- Revision notes (p. 44)
- Systematic classification of molecules into point groups (p. 45)
- Programme 3 Non-degenerate Representations (p. 46)
- Objectives (p. 46)
- Programme text (p. 47)
- Test (p. 62)
- Revision notes (p. 64)
- Programme 4 Matrices (p. 65)
- Objectives (p. 65)
- Programme text (p. 66)
- Test (p. 80)
- Revision notes (p. 84)
- Programme 5 Degenerate Representations (p. 85)
- Objective (p. 85)
- Programme text (p. 86)
- Test (p. 99)
- Revision notes (p. 101)
- Programme 6 Applications to Chemical Bonding (p. 102)
- Objectives (p. 102)
- Programme text (p. 103)
- Test (p. 118)
- Revision notes (p. 121)
- Programme 7 Applications to Molecular Vibration (p. 122)
- Objectives (p. 122)
- Programme text (p. 123)
- Test (p. 136)
- Revision notes (p. 138)
- Programme 8 Linear Combinations (p. 139)
- Objectives (p. 139)
- Programme text (p. 140)
- Test (p. 165)
- Revision notes (p. 172)
- Bibliography (p. 173)
- Mathematical Data for use with Character Tables (p. 174)
- Character Tables for Chemically Important Symmetry Groups (p. 176)
- Index (p. 186)