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With the advent of the electronic computers in the early 1950s it was finally possible to reexamine the two main approaches, and to take a closer look at the error implicit in these formulations. Thus we witness a three-way effort first, to establish a solid theoretical method, second, to develop all the needed mathematical algorithms for its implementation and third to be able to effectively use the new tool, the electronic computer, to obtain routinely numerical solutions. Incidentally, at the time there were relatively few quantum chemical textbooks computationally relevant , computers were still extremely expensive and rare in short computational chemistry hardly existed for lack of teachers, students, hardware and software. 

Some aspects, such as the computer representation and manipulation of proteins and nucleic acids, could not be covered. Even the modeling of the interactions of small molecules with proteins, as dealt with in docking software or software for de novo design could not be included in the Textbook, although chapters in the Handbook do treat these subjects. 

A textbook describing the theory associated with calculation s of Ih e electronic structure of molecti lar system s. While the book focuses on ab ini/rci calculation s, much of the in formation is also relevant to semi-empirical methods. The sections on the Hartree-fock an d Con figuration ItUeracTion s tn elh ods, in particular, apply to HyperChem. fhe self-paced exercisesare useful for the beginning computational chemist. 

ThIS pari describes the essentials of IlyperCdieni s theoretical and compiitaiion al chemistry or how IlyperCheni performs chemical calculations that yon request from the Setup and Compute menus. While it has pedagogical value, it isnot a textbook of computational chemistry the discussions are restricted to topics ol imme-diate relevance to IlyperChem only. Xeveriheless, yon can learn much about computational chemistry by reading this manual while using IlyperChem. 

To resolve the problems associated with structured and unstructured grids, these fundamentally different approaches may be combined to generate mesh types which partially posses the properties of both categories. This gives rise to block-structured , overset and hybrid mesh types which under certain conditions may lead to more efficient simulations than the either class of purely structured or unstructured grids. Detailed discussions related to the properties of these classes of computational grid.s can be found in specialized textbooks (e.g, see Liseikin, 1999) and only brief definitions are given here. 

More complicated reactions and heat capacity functions of the foiiii Cp = a + bT + cT + are treated in thermodynamics textbooks (e.g., Klotz and Rosenberg, 2000). Unfortunately, experimental values of heat capacities are not usually available over a wide temperature range and they present some computational problems as well [see Eq. (5-46)]. 

This chapter discusses the application of symmetry to orbital-based computational chemistry problems. A number of textbooks on symmetry are listed in the bibliography at the end of this chapter. 

The reader is advised to start with this book and to then delve further into the computational literature pertaining to his or her specific work. It is impossible to reference all relevant works in a book such as this. The bibliography included at the end of each chapter primarily lists textbooks and review articles. These are some of the best sources from which to begin a serious search of the literature. It is always advisable to run several tests to determine which techniques work best for a given project. 

Although you can investigate many research problems after reading the//yperC/zem Reference Manual HyperChem Computational Chemistry, you may also need information from textbooks and current journals. The following list of selected texts can supply the background necessary for understanding the calculations in HyperChem. 

C. L. Smith, Digital Computer Process Control, International Textbook Co., Scranton, Pa., 1964. 

In this chapter we present some basic equations iinking scattering to dynamics that are of interest to computer simuiators. Their derivations from first principies are quite iong, and for these readers are referred to appropriate textbooks [i,2]. Exampies of different properties that can be probed are given here from work invoiving our group. For more detaiis on this work, readers are referred to the original references and to two reviews [3,4],... 

We close these introductory remarks with a few comments on the methods which are actually used to study these models. They will for the most part be mentioned only very briefly. In the rest of this chapter, we shall focus mainly on computer simulations. Even those will not be explained in detail, for the simple reason that the models are too different and the simulation methods too many. Rather, we refer the reader to the available textbooks on simulation methods, e.g.. Ref. 32-35, and discuss only a few technical aspects here. In the case of atomistically realistic models, simulations are indeed the only possible way to approach these systems. Idealized microscopic models have usually been explored extensively by mean field methods. Even those can become quite involved for complex models, especially for chain models. One particularly popular and successful method to deal with chain molecules has been the self-consistent field theory. In a nutshell, it treats chains as random walks in a position-dependent chemical potential, which depends in turn on the conformational distributions of the chains in... 

Each individual p-n diode or n-p-n transistor can be made almost unbelievably minute by these techniques for example computer memory units storing over 10 bits of information on a single small chip are routinely used. Further information can be obtained from textbooks of solid-state physics or electronic engineering. 

I have assumed that the reader has no prior knowledge of concepts specific to computational chemistry, but has a working understanding of introductory quantum mechanics and elementary mathematics, especially linear algebra, vector, differential and integral calculus. The following features specific to chemistry are used in the present book without further introduction. Adequate descriptions may be found in a number of quantum chemistry textbooks (J. P. Lowe, Quantum Chemistry, Academic Press, 1993 1. N. Levine, Quantum Chemistry, Prentice Hall, 1992 P. W. Atkins, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Oxford University Press, 1983). 

The concept of justice, that is, the matter of giving each person what is due that person, is necessarily connected to the distribution of benefits and burdens, whatever they might be and however they are conceived. The relationship between computer use and power will turn on the moral concept of justice, especially distributive justice. As many business ethics textbooks... 

The basic principles are described in many textbooks [24, 26]. They are thus only sketchily presented here. In a conventional classical molecular dynamics calculation, a system of particles is placed within a cell of fixed volume, most frequently cubic in size. A set of velocities is also assigned, usually drawn from a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution appropriate to the temperature of interest and selected in a way so as to make the net linear momentum zero. The subsequent trajectories of the particles are then calculated using the Newton equations of motion. Employing the finite difference method, this set of differential equations is transformed into a set of algebraic equations, which are solved by computer. The particles are assumed to interact through some prescribed force law. The dispersion, dipole-dipole, and polarization forces are typically included whenever possible, they are taken from the literature. 

Thus, positions of the particles at the time t + At can be computed from the positions at times t and t - At, and the second derivative, (frildfi) that corresponds to the acceleration. The latter can be computed via Eqs. (35.1) and (35.2). Equation (35.3) is known as the Verlet algorithm. A number of methods are discussed in specihc textbooks (e.g., Allen and Tildesley, 1992), and the choice must be taken by making a balance between accuracy and cost in execution speed. 

The sampling variance of the material determined at a certain mass and the number of repetitive analyses can be used for the calculation of a sampling constant, K, a homogeneity factor, Hg or a statistical tolerance interval (m A) which will cover at least a 95 % probability at a probability level of r - a = 0.95 to obtain the expected result in the certified range (Pauwels et al. 1994). The value of A is computed as A = k 2R-s, a multiple of Rj, where is the standard deviation of the homogeneity determination,. The value of fe 2 depends on the number of measurements, n, the proportion, P, of the total population to be covered (95 %) and the probability level i - a (0.95). These factors for two-sided tolerance limits for normal distribution fe 2 can be found in various statistical textbooks (Owen 1962). The overall standard deviation S = (s/s/n) as determined from a series of replicate samples of approximately equal masses is composed of the analytical error, R , and an error due to sample inhomogeneity, Rj. As the variances are additive, one can write (Equation 4.2) ... 

The textbook is the first of its kind to include a diskette with a commercial simulation language. The diskette can be run on any DOS personal computer. 

The spin-Hamiltonian concept, as proposed by Van Vleck [79], was introduced to EPR spectroscopy by Pryce [50, 74] and others [75, 80, 81]. H. H. Wickmann was the first to simulate paramagnetic Mossbauer spectra [82, 83], and E. Miinck and P. Debmnner published the first computer routine for magnetically split Mossbauer spectra [84] which then became the basis of other simulation packages [85]. Concise introductions to the related modem EPR techniques can be found in the book by Schweiger and Jeschke [86]. Magnetic susceptibility is covered in textbooks on molecular magnetism [87-89]. An introduction to MCD spectroscopy is provided by [90-92]. Various aspects of the analysis of applied-field Mossbauer spectra of paramagnetic systems have been covered by a number of articles and reviews in the past [93-100]. 

The lattice gas has been used as a model for a variety of physical and chemical systems. Its application to simple mixtures is routinely treated in textbooks on statistical mechanics, so it is natural to use it as a starting point for the modeling of liquid-liquid interfaces. In the simplest case the system contains two kinds of solvent particles that occupy positions on a lattice, and with an appropriate choice of the interaction parameters it separates into two phases. This simple version is mainly of didactical value [1], since molecular dynamics allows the study of much more realistic models of the interface between two pure liquids [2,3]. However, even with the fastest computers available today, molecular dynamics is limited to comparatively small ensembles, too small to contain more than a few ions, so that the space-charge regions cannot be included. In contrast, Monte Carlo simulations for the lattice gas can be performed with 10 to 10 particles, so that modeling of the space charge poses no problem. In addition, analytical methods such as the quasichemical approximation allow the treatment of infinite ensembles. 

Obviously this optimal control problem is not a typical "textbook problem". It is not even clear whether the optimal solution can be readily computed. As a result, one should consider suboptimal solutions. 

More complicated reactions schemes, including first-order reversible consecutive processes and competitive consecutive reactions, are considered in a textbook by Irwin [89]. Professor Irwin s textbook also includes computer programs written in the BASIC language. These programs can be used to fit data to the models described. 

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