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A gradient extremal (GE) of the Miiller-Brown potential (see Figure 15 [28]) is a suitable example showing how the definition of these curves works The bowl of Mini is a deep, long, and relatively straight valley. The col of SPi opens to this main valley and a steepest descent path goes downhill perpendicular to the contour lines of the floor. At the valley floor, it joins in the floor line. However, we cannot decide at which point the lines cross, because this is an asymptotic junction. 

A straight valley TS (illustrated in Figure 12a), which has the IRC running along the valley floor, is easy to locate, and essentially all of the above algorithms will be successful... 

The situation presented in fig. 29 corresponds to the sudden limit, as we have already explained in the previous subsection. Having reached a bend point at the expense of the low-frequency vibration, the particle then cuts straight across the angle between the reactant and product valley, tunneling along the Q-direction. The sudden approximation holds when the vibration frequency (2 is less than the characteristic instanton frequency, which is of the order of In particular, the reactions of proton transfer (see fig. 2), characterised by high intramolecular vibration frequency, are being usually studied in this approximation [Ovchinnikova 1979 Babamov and Marcus 1981]. 

Figure 14.9 Top view of the sectors, or the hills and valleys, in a sector-focused cyclotrons. In (a) the concept of strong vertical focusing at the transition regions, edges, of the sectors is shown for straight sectors. A larger focusing effect is obtained hy spiraling the sectors as shown in (b). Note that the particles travel counterclockwise in this figure.

FIGURE 13.21 The contours of a potential energy surface for the reaction between a hydrogen atom and a bromine molecule. The atoms have been constrained to approach and depart in a straight line. The path of lowest potential energy (blue) is up one valley, across the pass—the saddle-shaped saddle point (see inset)—and down the floor of the other valley. The path shown in red would take the atoms to very high potential energies. 

Reactions on attractive surfaces with early barriers are promoted by high translational energy in the reactants, with vibrational energy playing a minor role. Selective enhancement by translational energy is easiest when there is a straight run up the entrance valley to the critical configuration. 

Vibrational energy is less important, because high vibrational energy would encourage the reaction unit to hit the barrier wall perpendicular to the reaction coordinate at the end of the straight run up the entrance valley, from which it would be bounced back down the entrance valley. 

In less than an hour and a half, we pass over the last foothill of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and begin to drop down into the Central Valley. Straight ahead, fifty miles to the west is the Coast Range. Millions of years ago, erosion from these two parallel mountain ranges deposited sediments onto the floor of the valley that was once an inland sea, creating soil that is deep brown, loamy, and rich in nutrients. Today this fertile soil supports the most productive agricultural land in the world, supplying 25% of all the food produced in the United States. 

Hence, for large c0 and coxB the projections of the bottoms of the valleys in Figures 4.39 and 4.40 are straight lines in the (J 0, coxB) plane. The obvious... 

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. 

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