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To ensure the consitency with other NEA-TDB Reviews, the fundamental physical constants are taken from a publication by CODATA [86COD]. Those relevant to this review are listed in Table II-7. Note that updated values of the fundamental constants can be obtained from CODATA, notably through its Internet site. In most cases, recalculation of the NEA-TDB database entries with the updated values of the fundamental constants will not introduce significant (with respect to their quoted uncertainties) excursions from the current NEA-TDB selections. 

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Section 2 combines the former separate section on Mathematics with the material involving General Information and Conversion Tables. The fundamental physical constants reflect values recommended in 1986. Physical and chemical symbols and definitions have undergone extensive revision and expansion. Presented in 14 categories, the entries follow recommendations published in 1988 by the lUPAC. The table of abbreviations and standard letter symbols provides, in a sense, an alphabetical index to the foregoing tables. The table of conversion factors has been modified in view of recent data and inclusion of SI units cross-entries for archaic or unusual entries have been curtailed. 

Note that the fundamental physical constants drop out with the use of atomic units. 

Recommended Consistent Values of Some Fundamental Physical Constants (1986)... 

CODATA recommended values, adapted from [1,2] and http //physics.nist. gov/cuu/Constants/index.html Frequently used fundamental physical constants... 

All equations given in this text appear in a very compact form, without any fundamental physical constants. We achieve this by employing the so-called system of atomic units, which is particularly adapted for working with atoms and molecules. In this system, physical quantities are expressed as multiples of fundamental constants and, if necessary, as combinations of such constants. The mass of an electron, me, the modulus of its charge, lei, Planck s constant h divided by lit, h, and 4jt 0, the permittivity of the vacuum, are all set to unity. Mass, charge, action etc. are then expressed as multiples of these constants, which can therefore be dropped from all equations. The definitions of atomic units used in this book and their relations to the corresponding SI units are summarized in Table 1-1. 

The values of the parameters derived from the best fit can be related to the fundamental physical constants, such as the electrochemical rate constants, by explicit calculation. From the Butler- Volmer equation,... 

Flesh out the X V) in Eq. (3.67) in terms of fundamental physical constants and show that this leads to the numerical coefficient given. 

A convenient measure of the importance of relativistic corrections is given by the ratio Aei of Z to the fine-structure constant (e2/(hc) — 137, a dimensionless ratio of fundamental physical constants)... 

International Association for the Properties of Water and SteamGuidelines for the use of fundamental physical constants and basic constants of water. 2002. Revision of September 2001 guidelines, Gaitherburg, MA. Available online at http //www.iapws.org. 

A list of some non-SI units, together with their SI values, and a table containing the best values of some fundamental physical constants are given in appendix A. 

There are several publications dealing with units and symbols of physical chemical quantities. Some also list the values of the fundamental physical constants, as recommended by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) in 2005 [1], The following tables contain the information that is relevant for molecular energetics [1,2]. 

P. J. Mohr, B. N. Taylor. CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants 2002. Rev. Mod. Phys. 2005, 77, 1-107. See also physics.nist.gov/constants (November 2006). 

Only a few relevant points about the atomic structures are summarized in the following. Table 4.1 collects basic data about the fundamental physical constants of the atomic constituents. Neutrons (Jn) and protons (ip), tightly bound in the nucleus, have nearly equal masses. The number of protons, that is the atomic number (Z), defines the electric charge of the nucleus. The number of neutrons (N), together with that of protons (A = N + Z) represents the atomic mass number of the species (of the nuclide). An element consists of all the atoms having the same value of Z, that is, the same position in the Periodic Table (Moseley 1913). The different isotopes of an element have the same value of Z but differ in the number of neutrons in their nuclei and therefore in their atomic masses. In a neutral atom the electronic envelope contains Z electrons. The charge of an electron (e ) is equal in size but of opposite sign to that of a proton (the mass ratio, mfmp) is about 1/1836.1527). 

Table 4.1. Fundamental physical constants (adapted from Nist Codata, Mohr and Taylor (2005)).

Table E.2 Fundamental Physical Constants (to six significant digits)...

A factor Avogadro s constant multiplied by 10 enters these expressions on condition that atomic and electronic masses be expressed, as is customary in spectral analyses, in unified atomic mass unit both Uifi and f/o,i contain mass in their units, despite their values being formally independent of atomic mass. The standard errors associated with values of k and in Table 1 include contributions from errors of pertinent fundamental physical constants [94]. 

CODATA recommended values of the Fundamental Physical Constants, ICSU-CODATA Task ... 

Taylor reviews the use of least-squares methods to determine the best values of the fundamental physical constants (3). 

In numerical calculations below we will use the most precise modern values of the fundamental physical constants as obtained in [1]. The value of the Rydberg constant is... 

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