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Hard segment crystal lizability, and/or other specific interactions such as it-electron forces between aromatic groups or 3-D hydrogen bonding provide higher cohesive intersegmental forces. 

These laws at first sight seem to go against our common experience. Indeed, they may seem to be incorrect when seen for the first time. Rather like Newton s laws of motion, the above statements strip away the interference of other effects such as gravity, friction, viscosity and geometry which dominate our everyday experience. They reveal the chemical reality of natural electronic forces between atoms. 

In 1930, London [1,2] showed the existence of an additional type of electromagnetic force between atoms having the required characteristics. This is known as the dispersion or London-van der Waals force. It is always attractive and arises from the fluctuating electron clouds in all atoms that appear as oscillating dipoles created by the positive nucleus and negative electrons. The derivation is described in detail in several books [1,3] and we will outline it briefly here. 

The Hamiltonian considered above, which connmites with E, involves the electromagnetic forces between the nuclei and electrons. However, there is another force between particles, the weak interaction force, that is not invariant to inversion. The weak charged current mteraction force is responsible for the beta decay of nuclei, and the related weak neutral current interaction force has an effect in atomic and molecular systems. If we include this force between the nuclei and electrons in the molecular Hamiltonian (as we should because of electroweak unification) then the Hamiltonian will not conuuiite with , and states of opposite parity will be mixed. However, the effect of the weak neutral current interaction force is mcredibly small (and it is a very short range force), although its effect has been detected in extremely precise experiments on atoms (see, for... 

AFM measures the spatial distribution of the forces between an ultrafme tip and the sample. This distribution of these forces is also highly correlated with the atomic structure. STM is able to image many semiconductor and metal surfaces with atomic resolution. AFM is necessary for insulating materials, however, as electron conduction is required for STM in order to achieve tiumelling. Note that there are many modes of operation for these instruments, and many variations in use. In addition, there are other types of scaiming probe microscopies under development. 

The quantum phase factor is the exponential of an imaginary quantity (i times the phase), which multiplies into a wave function. Historically, a natural extension of this was proposed in the fonn of a gauge transformation, which both multiplies into and admixes different components of a multicomponent wave function [103]. The resulting gauge theories have become an essential tool of quantum field theories and provide (as already noted in the discussion of the YM field) the modem rationale of basic forces between elementary particles [67-70]. It has already been noted that gauge theories have also made notable impact on molecular properties, especially under conditions that the electronic... 

To start, it is useful to put the previous result in a more elementary setting, familiar in the context of electromagnetic force between charged parficles, say electrons. Thus, we recapitulate as follows. 

Unlike the forces between ions which are electrostatic and without direction, covalent bonds are directed in space. For a simple molecule or covalently bonded ion made up of typical elements the shape is nearly always decided by the number of bonding electron pairs and the number of lone pairs (pairs of electrons not involved in bonding) around the central metal atom, which arrange themselves so as to be as far apart as possible because of electrostatic repulsion between the electron pairs. Table 2.8 shows the essential shape assumed by simple molecules or ions with one central atom X. Carbon is able to form a great many covalently bonded compounds in which there are chains of carbon atoms linked by single covalent bonds. In each case where the carbon atoms are joined to four other atoms the essential orientation around each carbon atom is tetrahedral. 

We assume that the nuclei are so slow moving relative to electrons that we may regard them as fixed masses. This amounts to separation of the Schroedinger equation into two parts, one for nuclei and one for electrons. We then drop the nuclear kinetic energy operator, but we retain the intemuclear repulsion terms, which we know from the nuclear charges and the intemuclear distances. We retain all terms that involve electrons, including the potential energy terms due to attractive forces between nuclei and electrons and those due to repulsive forces... 

Were we to simply add the ionization energy of sodium (496 kJ/mol) and the electron affin ity of chlorine (—349 kJ/mol) we would conclude that the overall process is endothermic with AH° = +147 kJ/mol The energy liberated by adding an electron to chlorine is msuf ficient to override the energy required to remove an electron from sodium This analysis however fails to consider the force of attraction between the oppositely charged ions Na" and Cl which exceeds 500 kJ/mol and is more than sufficient to make the overall process exothermic Attractive forces between oppositely charged particles are termed electrostatic, or coulombic, attractions and are what we mean by an ionic bond between two atoms... 

Nonbonded interactions are the forces be tween atoms that aren t bonded to one another they may be either attractive or repulsive It often happens that the shape of a molecule may cause two atoms to be close in space even though they are sep arated from each other by many bonds Induced dipole/induced dipole interactions make van der Waals forces in alkanes weakly attractive at most distances but when two atoms are closer to each other than the sum of their van der Waals radii nuclear-nuclear and electron-electron repulsive forces between them dominate the fvan derwaais term The resulting destabilization is called van der Waals strain... 

Induced dipole/induced dipole forces are the only intermolecular attractive forces available to nonpolar molecules such as alkanes In addition to these forces polar molecules engage m dipole-dipole and dipole/mduced dipole attractions The dipole-dipole attractive force is easiest to visualize and is illustrated m Figure 4 3 Two molecules of a polar substance experience a mutual attraction between the positively polarized region of one molecule and the negatively polarized region of the other As its name implies the dipole/induced dipole force combines features of both the induced dipole/mduced dipole and dipole-dipole attractive forces A polar region of one mole cule alters the electron distribution m a nonpolar region of another m a direction that produces an attractive force between them... 

Just as for an atom, the hamiltonian H for a diatomic or polyatomic molecule is the sum of the kinetic energy T, or its quantum mechanical equivalent, and the potential energy V, as in Equation (1.20). In a molecule the kinetic energy T consists of contributions and from the motions of the electrons and nuclei, respectively. The potential energy comprises two terms, and F , due to coulombic repulsions between the electrons and between the nuclei, respectively, and a third term Fg , due to attractive forces between the electrons and nuclei, giving... 

All heteronuclear diatomic molecules, in their ground electronic state, dissociate into neutral atoms, however strongly polar they may be. The simple explanation for this is that dissociation into a positive and a negative ion is much less likely because of the attractive force between the ions even at a relatively large separation. The highly polar Nal molecule is no exception. The lowest energy dissociation process is... 

The coUision cross sections are functions of the electron energy and of the relationship which describes the forces between the heavy particles and the electrons (34). 

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