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If no laminae have failed, the load must be determined at which the first lamina fails (so-called first-ply failure), that is, violates the lamina failure criterion. In the process of this determination, the laminae stresses must be found as a function of the unknown magnitude of loads first in the laminate coordinates and then in the principal material directions. The proportions of load (i.e., the ratios of to Ny, to My,/ etc.) are, of course, specified at the beginning of the analysik The loaa parameter is increased until some individual lamina fails. The properties, of the failed lamina are then degraded in one of two ways (1) totally to zero if the fibers in the lamina fail or (2) to fiber-direction properties if the failure is by cracking parallel to the fibers (matrix failure). Actually, because of the matrix manipulations involved in the analysis, the failed lamina properties must not be zero, but rather effectively zero values in order to avoid a singular matrix that could not be inverted in the structural analysis problem. The laminate strains are calculated from the known load and the stiffnesses prior to failure of a lamina. The laminate deformations just after failure of a lamina are discussed later. 

You will recall that there are three possible p orbitals for any value of the principal quantum number. You should also recall that p orbitals are not spherical, like s orbitals, but are elongated, and thus possess definite directional properties. The three p orbitals correspond to the three directions of Cartesian space, and are frequently designated px, py, and pz, to indicate the axis along which the orbital is aligned. Of course, in the free atom, where no coordinate system is defined, all direction are equivalent, and so are the p orbitals. But when the atom is near another atom, the electric field due to that other atom acts as a point of reference that defines a set of directions. The line of centers between the two nuclei is conventionally taken as the x axis. If this direction is represented horizontally on a sheet of paper, then the y axis is in the vertical direction and the z axis would be normal to the page. 

Chloride ions and water molecules are comparable. In the three- and four-coordination, the chloride ion stereochemistry is very similar to that of the water molecules in hydrated crystals. Also, both display no strong directional properties as hydrogen-bond acceptors. 

Here, we look at the atomic orbitals (AOs) that constitute the partly filled subshell we are dealing for the moment with free atoms/ions, as observed in the gas phase. An AO is a function of the coordinates of just one electron, and is the product of two parts the radial part is a function of r, the distance of the electron from the nncleus and thns has spherical syimnetry the angular part is a function of the x, y, and z axes and conveys the directional properties of the orbital. The notation nd indicates an AO whose / qnantum number is 2 we have five nd orbitals corresponding to m/ = 2,1, 0, —1, and —2. Solving the Schrodinger equation, we obtain the angular wavefunctions as equations (15). 

Purely electrostatic forces between ions are nondirectional, but with increasing covalent character the directional properties of valence orbitals become more important. Compounds between nonmetallic elements have predominantly covalent bonding and the structures can often be rationalized from the expected CN and bonding geometry of the atoms present (see Topics C2 and C6). Thus in SiC both elements have tetrahedral coordination in Si02 silicon also forms four... 

The contribution of the hydrogen AOs to the 2 MOs has a more complicated form (the hydrogens are not at the coordinate origin), but we need not explicitly consider the hydrogen part of the MOs. This is because the hydrogen symmetry orbitals (15.43) to (15.45) have the same directional properties as the corresponding carbon 2p AOs (15.54) with which each is combined in the 1 2 MOs [Eq. (15.46)]. The linear combination (15.47) has as its carbon 2p contribution... 

An isotropic material has the same properties in all directions. Properties such as refractive index and Young s modulus are independent of direction, and if we wish to refer the properties to a set of rectangular cartesian co-ordinates, we can rotate the axes to be in any orientation without any preferoice. For an anisotropic material, where the properties differ with direction, it is usually convenient to choose coordinate systems which coincide with axes of S3rmmetry if this is possible. The material is then described by its properties referred to these principal directions, which affords considerable simplification. 

A scalar 5 is a quantity that can be represented by a single number, accompanied with the proper unit. A scalar has only a size, it has no directional properties. Such quantity does not depend on the choice of coordinate system and therefore it must be invariant when one coordinate system is replaced by another. 

SECOND-ROW HOMONUCLEAR DIATOMIC MOLECULES Let US proceed now to the atoms in the second row of the periodic table, namely, Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F, and Ne. These atoms have 2s, Ipx, 2py, and Ip valence orbitals. We first need to specify a coordinate system for the general homonuclear diatomic molecule A2, since the Ip orbitals have directional properties. The z axis is customarily assigned to be the unique molecular axis, as shown in Fig. 2-10. The molecular orbitals are obtained by adding and subtracting those atomic orbitals that overlap. 

Type IIpolymers have the metal group electronically coupled to the polymer backbone through a conjugated Unker group or directly by coordination to sites the metal groups can directly influence each other s properties. 

All of these functions have the same radial exponential decay as the 2s orbital, so we can say that the 2s and 2p orbitals are about equal in size. However, since the 2p orbitals contain the factor Zr/ao where the 2s contains (2 — Zrla )), the 2p orbitals vanish at the nucleus and not at any intermediate r value they have no radial nodes. The 2p orbitals are endowed with directional properties by their angular dependences. The 2po orbital is particularly easy to understand because the factors r cos 0 behave exactly like the z Cartesian coordinate. Hence, we can rewrite 2po (also called 2p ) in mixed coordinates as... 

Hybridization of atomic orbitals, a mathematical tool for mixing the atomic orbitals to give an equal number of hybrid orbitals with superior directional properties, became a very important feature of this theory in explaining various geometries observed in coordination compounds. 

Here, k and 1 are indices for the / -orbital basis functions. In the Hiickel tight-binding approach, the transition dipole integral is approximated as (k r, /) K. R dyi, where is the i -direction Cartesian coordinate of the k atom. In the finite-field method, the numerical value of the field Tis taken to be 0.01 V/A. Once optimized the stability of the property values is verified by comparing the results to sum-over-state (SOS) calculations. ... 

Each such nonual mode can be assigned a synuuetry in the point group of the molecule. The wavefrmctions for non-degenerate modes have the following simple synuuetry properties the wavefrmctions with an odd vibrational quantum number v. have the same synuuetry as their nonual mode 2the ones with an even v. are totally symmetric. The synuuetry of the total vibrational wavefrmction (Q) is tlien the direct product of the synuuetries of its constituent nonual coordinate frmctions (p, (2,). In particular, the lowest vibrational state. 

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