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The dielectric constant of unsymmetrical molecules containing dipoles (polar molecules) will be dependent on the internal viscosity of the dielectric. If very hard frozen ethyl alcohol is used as the dielectric the dielectric constant is approximately 3 at the melting point, when the molecules are free to orient themselves, the dielectric constant is about 55. Further heating reduces the ratio by increasing the energy of molecular motions which tend to disorient the molecules but at room temperature the dielectric constant is still as high as 35. 

Temperature must be held constant in equation (1.15), since changing the temperature changes the energy. The internal kinetic and potential energy of the molecules in a system is often referred to as the thermal energy. Kinetic-molecular theory predicts that motion will stop at the absolute zero of temperatures where the thermal energy will be zero. 

However, the obscure choice of frequencies in the visible and UV regions in the original calculations may have been guided by a desire to fit experimental heats. In fact, the Debye rotational and translational crystal frequencies relate to sublimation energies of the lattice, and, together with internal molecular vibrations, can be used to calculate thermodynamic functions (16). An indirect connection between maximum lattice frequencies (vm) and heats of formation may hold because the former is inversely related to interatomic dimensions (see Section IV,D,1) ... 

Fig. 5.1 A schematic projection of the 3n dimensional (per molecule) potential energy surface for intermolecular interaction. Lennard-Jones potential energy is plotted against molecule-molecule separation in one plane, the shifts in the position of the minimum and the curvature of an internal molecular vibration in the other. The heavy upper curve, a, represents the gas-gas pair interaction, the lower heavy curve, p, measures condensation. The lighter parabolic curves show the internal vibration in the dilute gas, the gas dimer, and the condensed phase. For the CH symmetric stretch of methane (3143.7 cm-1) at 300 K, RT corresponds to 8% of the oscillator zpe, and 210% of the LJ well depth for the gas-gas dimer (Van Hook, W. A., Rebelo, L. P. N. and Wolfsberg, M. /. Phys. Chem. A 105, 9284 (2001))...

Until a recent x-ray diffraction study (17) provided direct evidence of the arrangement of the pigment species in the reaction center of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas Viridis, a considerable amount of all evidence pertaining to the internal molecular architecture of plant or bacterial reaction centers was inferred from the results of in vitro spectroscopic experiments and from work on model systems (5, 18, 19). Aside from their use as indirect probes of the structure and function of plant and bacterial reaction centers, model studies have also provided insights into the development of potential biomimetic solar energy conversion systems. In this regard, the work of Netzel and co-workers (20-22) is particularly noteworthy, and in addition, is quite relevant to the material discussed at this conference. 

Here, the source of the energy for these interactions is supposed to come from internal molecular forces such as the free energy of mixing that occurs during the violent mass transfer. One of the main characteristics of a spontaneously emulsifying system is that there is no requirement for the application of external energy. 

Kinetic Theory. In the kinetic theory and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, fluid properties are associated with averages of pruperlies of microscopic entities. Density, for example, is the average number of molecules per unit volume, times the mass per molecule. While much of the molecular theory in fluid dynamics aims to interpret processes already adequately described by the continuum approach, additional properties and processes are presented. The distribution of molecular velocities (i.e., how many molecules have each particular velocity), time-dependent adjustments of internal molecular motions, and momentum and energy transfer processes at boundaries are examples. 

The effect of reactant internal vibrational energy on molecular fragment ion ratios resulting from dissociative charge transfer of some large alkanes has also been accurately predicted by the QET.476... 

INTERNAL ENERGIES OF MOLECULAR IONS FORMED BY FIELD IONIZATION (FI)... 

Here Hnucli k describes the motion of protons and neutrons (nucleons) of the fcth nucleus, //CMmol describes the motion of the center of mass of the molecule, Hmoi is the internal molecular Hamiltonian, and Hlept contains the kinetic energy operators of the neutrino and of the ft electron (leptons) as well as the term describing the interaction of the latter with the nuclei of the molecule. 

Rigid Molecule Group theory will be given in the main part of this paper. For example, synunetry adapted potential energy function for internal molecular large amplitude motions will be deduced. Symmetry eigenvectors which factorize the Hamiltonian matrix in boxes will be derived. In the last section, applications to problems of physical interest will be forwarded. For example, conformational dependencies of molecular parameters as a function of temperature will be determined. Selection rules, as wdl as, torsional far infrared spectrum band structure calculations will be predicted. Finally, the torsional band structures of electronic spectra of flexible molecules will be presented. 

For the more complicated molecular models such as, for example, those that assume central forces, we replace the above set of parameters by a new set involved in defining the force field. If we add to this the problem of complex molecules (i.c., those with internal structure), then there is the additional set of parameters needed to define the interactions between the internal molecular motions and the external force fields. From the point of view of the hard sphere model this would involve the definition of still more accommodation coefficients to describe the efficiency of transfer of internal energy between colliding molecules. 

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