Modern Spectroscopy, 3rd Edition

By J. Hollas

Book Overview

This new edition of Modern Spectroscopy is aimed at an undergraduate audience, and introduces a wide range of spectroscopies, and includes both the background theory and applications to structure determination and chemical analysis. It covers rotational, vibrational, electronic, photoelectron, and Auger spectroscopy, as well as EXAFS, and the theory of laser and laser spectroscopy. Subjects such as interferometry, supersonic jet spectroscopy, and applications of spectroscopy to astrophysics are also notable by their inclusion. New material includes a discussion of icosahedral symmetry and its relevance to the C60 molecule, the basics of charge coupled device detectors, an introduction to zero kinetic energy photoelectron spectroscopy, and simple rules for the division of the vibrations of a molecule into symmetry classes. Reformatted and designed to be user-friendly, Modern Spectroscopy provides new worked examples of calculations and other problems covering a wide variety of topics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471965235
• ISBN13: 9780471965237
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.1" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Modern Spectroscopy

Quick delivery. Quality product. Great source of technical information. Good value for the money. I am very happy with this purchase.

Excellent and well organized spectroscopy book

The books reviews all the fundamental concepts on molecular spectroscopy. The chapter on quantum mechanics is well organized, and introduces the reader into the tools necessary for understanding the logic behind molecular spectroscopy. Simple, clear and easy to follow. The way the book is organized is also very good, from general/simple to specific/complex, so it's suitable for undergraduate students and all type of scientists.

it is a great book

This a great book about spectroscopy. The balance between experiment method/data/figure and theory description is just so good that I got a lot of understanding that I didn't get from other book.

The Best Book of its Type

Even if beginning with only an introductory understanding of quantum mechanics, this excellent book will allow you to understand most major branches of spectroscopy. The chapters are organized to include reasonable amounts of both theory and show real spectra to help use the theory in the context of real research. One of the earlier chapters includes a review/primer on group theory and the remaining chapters can be understood with the group theory presented in that chapter. This book is therefore suitable as a text and is also very usefull as a reference.