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Flynn G W, Michaels C A, Tapalian C, Lin Z, Sevy E and Muyskens M A 1997 Infrared laser snapshots vibrational, rotational and translational energy probes of high energy collision dynamics Highly Excited Molecules Relaxation, Reaction, and Structure ed A Mullin and G Schatz (Washington, DC ACS)... 

The interaction of a molecular species with electromagnetic fields can cause transitions to occur among the available molecular energy levels (electronic, vibrational, rotational, and nuclear spin). Collisions among molecular species likewise can cause transitions to occur. Time-dependent perturbation theory and the methods of molecular dynamics can be employed to treat such transitions. 

Solutions to a Schrodinger equation for this last Hamiltonian (7) describe the vibrational, rotational, and translational states of a molecular system. This release of HyperChem does not specifically explore solutions to the nuclear Schrodinger equation, although future releases may. Instead, as is often the case, a classical approximation is made replacing the Hamiltonian by the classical energy ... 

If any atoms have nuclear spin this part of the total wave function can be factorized and the energy treated additively. ft is for these reasons that we can treat electronic, vibrational, rotational and NMR spectroscopy separately. 

This Hamiltonian is used in the Schrodinger equation for nuclear motion, describing the vibrational, rotational, and translational states of the nuclei. Solving the nuclear Schrodinger equation (at least approximately) is necessary for predicting the vibrational spectra of molecules. 

A) The error in AE /AEq is lOkcal/mol. It is clear that spending significant amounts of computer time in order to include vibrational, rotational and translational corrections has little meaning. 

B) The error in AE /AEq is 1 kcal/mol. The corrections from vibrations, rotations and translation now become important, and should be included. However, sophisticated treatments like anharmonic vibrations are unimportant. 

C) The error in AE" /AEq is 0.1 kcal/mol. Corrections from vibrations, rotations and translation are clearly necessary. Explicit calculation of the partition functions for anharmonic vibrations and internal rotations may be considered. However, at this point other factors also become important for the activation energy. These include for example ... 

Models for description of liquids should provide us with an understanding of the dynamic behavior of the molecules, and thus of the routes of chemical reactions in the liquids. While it is often relatively easy to describe the molecular structure and dynamics of the gaseous or the solid state, this is not true for the liquid state. Molecules in liquids can perform vibrations, rotations, and translations. A successful model often used for the description of molecular rotational processes in liquids is the rotational diffusion model, in which it is assumed that the molecules rotate by small angular steps about the molecular rotation axes. One quantity to describe the rotational speed of molecules is the reorientational correlation time T, which is a measure for the average time elapsed when a molecule has rotated through an angle of the order of 1 radian, or approximately 60°. It is indirectly proportional to the velocity of rotational motion. 

If, now, we continue warming the substance sufficiently, we will reach a point at which the kinetic energies in vibration, rotation, and translation become comparable to chemical bond energies. Then molecules begin to disintegrate. This is the reason that only the very simplest molecules—diatomic molecules—are found in the Sun. There the temperature is so high (6000°K at the surface) that more complex molecules cannot survive. 

We recall that e, f are the vibration-rotation energies of the molecule in the anion and neutral molecule states, E denotes the kinetic energy carried away by the ejected electron, and the density of translational energy states of the ejected electron is p(E). Also recall that we use the short hand notation to symbolize the multidimensional derivative operators that arise in non BO couplings and that embody the momentum-exchange between the vibration/rotation and electronic degrees of fieedom ... 

At 298 K AU includes vibrational, rotational, and translational energy changes that total 25 kJ mol-1, of which the most important is the vibrational energy, so that the quantity AU29 that is measured at 298 K is... 

Figure 2.1 Plot of the energy change AU for the dissociation of a diatomic molecule. AUC is the value for the hypothetical state of the molecule at OK that has no vibration, rotational or translational energy. Af/298 is for the value for the dissociation of the molecule at 298K and includes vibrational, rotational and translational energy changes.

In a nonattaching gas electron, thermalization occurs via vibrational, rotational, and elastic collisions. In attaching media, competitive scavenging occurs, sometimes accompanied by attachment-detachment equilibrium. In the gas phase, thermalization time is more significant than thermalization distance because of relatively large travel distances, thermalized electrons can be assumed to be homogeneously distributed. The experiments we review can be classified into four categories (1) microwave methods, (2) use of probes, (3) transient conductivity, and (4) recombination luminescence. Further microwave methods can be subdivided into four types (1) cross modulation, (2) resonance frequency shift, (3) absorption, and (4) cavity technique for collision frequency. 

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