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Gibbs free energy or Gibbs molar free energy molar flow of gas phase acceleration of gravity enthalpy, molar enthalpy, weight enthalpy Henry s constant Planck s constant height horsepower radiation intensity molar flux... 

The miderstanding of the quantum mechanics of atoms was pioneered by Bohr, in his theory of the hydrogen atom. This combined the classical ideas on planetary motion—applicable to the atom because of the fomial similarity of tlie gravitational potential to tlie Coulomb potential between an electron and nucleus—with the quantum ideas that had recently been introduced by Planck and Einstein. This led eventually to the fomial theory of quaiitum mechanics, first discovered by Heisenberg, and most conveniently expressed by Schrodinger in the wave equation that bears his name. 

Mn is the mass of the nucleon, jis Planck s constant divided by 2ti, m. is the mass of the electron. This expression omits some temis such as those involving relativistic interactions, but captures the essential features for most condensed matter phases. 

In the previous section we discussed light and matter at equilibrium in a two-level quantum system. For the remainder of this section we will be interested in light and matter which are not at equilibrium. In particular, laser light is completely different from the thennal radiation described at the end of the previous section. In the first place, only one, or a small number of states of the field are occupied, in contrast with the Planck distribution of occupation numbers in thennal radiation. Second, the field state can have a precise phase-, in thennal radiation this phase is assumed to be random. If multiple field states are occupied in a laser they can have a precise phase relationship, something which is achieved in lasers by a teclmique called mode-locking Multiple frequencies with a precise phase relation give rise to laser pulses in time. Nanosecond experiments... 

This is the Planck distribution function. The themial average energy in theyth mode is (including the zero point energy)... 

This is known as the Planck radiation law. Figure A2.2.3 shows this spectral density fiinction. The surface temperature of a hot body such as a star can be estimated by approximating it by a black body and measuring the frequency at which the maximum emission of radiant energy occurs. It can be shown that the maximum of the Planck spectral density occurs at 2.82. So a measurement of yields an estimate of the... 

Figure A2.2.3. Planck spectral density fimction as a fimction of the dimensionless frequency /)oi/(/rj 7). A2.2.4.7 APPLICATION TO IDEAL SYSTEMS ELASTIC WAVES IN A SOLID...

A fiill theory of micleation requires a dynamical description. In the late 1960s, the early theories of homogeneous micleation were generalized and made rigorous by Langer [47]. Here one starts with an appropriate Fokker-Planck... 

Here h(x) is the Heaviside step function with h(x > 0) = 1 and h(x > 0) = 0 (not to be confused with Planck s constant). The limit a(J.. . ) indicates that the sunnnation is restricted to channel potentials witir a given set of good quantum numbers (J.. . ). 

From these equations one also finds the rate coefficient matrix for themial radiative transitions including absorption, induced and spontaneous emission in a themial radiation field following Planck s law [35] ... 

The transition occurs with significant probability only if the frequency of the light is very close to the familiar resonance condition, namely hv = AE, where h is Planck s constant and AE is the difference in energy of the... 

Finally, exchange is a kinetic process and governed by absolute rate theory. Therefore, study of the rate as a fiinction of temperature can provide thennodynamic data on the transition state, according to equation (B2.4.1)). This equation, in which Ids Boltzmaim s constant and h is Planck s constant, relates tlie observed rate to the Gibbs free energy of activation, AG. ... 

Planck M 1897 Vorlesungen uber Thermodynamik (Leipzig von Veit)... 

A linear dependence approximately describes the results in a range of extraction times between 1 ps and 50 ps, and this extrapolates to a value of Ws not far from that observed for the 100 ps extractions. However, for the simulations with extraction times, tg > 50 ps, the work decreases more rapidly with l/tg, which indicates that the 100 ps extractions still have a significant frictional contribution. As additional evidence for this, we cite the statistical error in the set of extractions from different starting points (Fig. 2). As was shown by one of us in the context of free energy calculations[12], and more recently again by others specifically for the extraction process [1], the statistical error in the work and the frictional component of the work, Wp are related. For a simple system obeying the Fokker-Planck equation, both friction and mean square deviation are proportional to the rate, and... 

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