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We wish to thank Dr M O Neill at the University of Hull for valuable discussions during the course of this work. One of us (RAJS ) was supported by an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research studentship. 

This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. References... 

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Spectroscopy, or the study of the interaction of light with matter, has become one of the major tools of the natural and physical sciences during this century. As the wavelength of the radiation is varied across the electromagnetic spectrum, characteristic properties of atoms, molecules, liquids and solids are probed. In the... 

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Fig. l-ll Single and double integrals. (Figure adapted in part from Boas M L, 1983, Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. 2nd Edition. New York, Wiley.)... 

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Classical and Quantum Mechanics. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a revolution was brewing in the world of physics. For hundreds of years, the Newtonian laws of mechanics had satisfactorily provided explanations and supported experimental observations in the physical sciences. However, the experimentaUsts of the nineteenth century had begun delving into the world of matter at an atomic level. This led to unsatisfactory explanations of the observed patterns of behavior of electricity, light, and matter, and it was these inconsistencies which led Bohr, Compton, deBroghe, Einstein, Planck, and Schrn dinger to seek a new order, another level of theory, ie, quantum theory. 

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During the nineteenth century the growth of thermodynamics and the development of the kinetic theory marked the beginning of an era in which the physical sciences were given a quantitative foundation. In the laboratory, extensive researches were carried out to determine the effects of pressure and temperature on the rates of chemical reactions and to measure the physical properties of matter. Work on the critical properties of carbon dioxide and on the continuity of state by van der Waals provided the stimulus for accurate measurements on the compressibiUty of gases and Hquids at what, in 1885, was a surprisingly high pressure of 300 MPa (- 3,000 atmor 43,500 psi). This pressure was not exceeded until about 1912. 

Microscopes are also classified by the type of information they present size, shape, transparency, crystallinity, color, anisotropy, refractive indices and dispersion, elemental analyses, and duorescence, as well as infrared, visible, or ultraviolet absorption frequencies, etc. One or more of these microscopes are used in every area of the physical sciences, ie, biology, chemistry, and physics, and also in their subsciences, mineralogy, histology, cytology, pathology, metallography, etc. 

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EA.E.T thanks the financial support by the University of Valencia for the V Segles" grant provided and W.C.S. the industrial case award by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in collaboration with LGC limited. 

I am pleased to acknowledge that the simulation results presented in this chapter were obtained from calculations carried out in collaboration with Kechuan Tu, Mike Klein, and Kent Blasie. The calculations and fitting of the neutron scattering spectra benefited from discussions with Mounir Tarek. Financial support was provided by the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California at Irvine and a grant from the donors of The Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS-PRF 33247-G7). 

J. H. Scofield. J. Electron Spect. 8,129, 1976. This is the standard quoted reference for photoionization cross sections at 1487 eV. It is actually one of the most heavily cited references in physical science. The calculations are published in tabular form for all electron level of all elements. 

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Electro-osmosis has been defined in the literature in many indirect ways, but the simplest definition comes from the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines it as the effect of an external electric held on a system undergoing osmosis or reverse osmosis. Electro-osmosis is not a well-understood phenomenon, and this especially apphes to polar non-ionic solutions. Recent hterature and many standard text and reference books present a rather confused picture, and some imply directly or indirectly that it cannot take place in uniform electric fields [31-35]. This assumption is perhaps based on the fact that the interaction of an external electric held on a polar molecule can produce only a net torque, but no net force. This therefore appears to be an ideal problem for molecular simulation to address, and we will describe here how molecular simulation has helped to understand this phenomenon [26]. Electro-osmosis has many important applications in both the hfe and physical sciences, including processes as diverse as water desahnation, soil purification, and drug delivery. 

These Monographs are intended to serve two principal purposes first, to make available to chemists a thorough treatment of a selected area in a form usable by persons working in more or less unrelated fields so that they may correlate their own work with a larger area of physical science and second, to stimulate further research in the specific field treated. To implement this purpose the authors of Monographs give extended references to the literature. 

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Mechanics is the physical science that deals with the effects of forces on the state of motion or rest of solid, liquid, or gaseous bodies. The field may he divided into the mechanics of rigid bodies, the mechanics of deformable bodies, and the mechanics of fluids. 

In the physical sciences, pressure is usually defined as the perpendicular force per unit area, or the stress at a point within a confined fluid. This force per unit area acting on a surface is usually expressed in pounds per square inch. 

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