Electronic Structure Theory describes the motions of electrons in atoms or molecules. Generally this is done in the context of the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation, which says that electrons are so much lighter (and therefore faster) than nuclei that they will find their optimal distribution for any given nuclear configuration. The electronic energy at each nuclear configuration is the potential ...

for the quintet state of the O2„ 3 g − ...–O2„ 3 g − ... dimer Massimiliano Bartolomei, Estela Carmona-Novillo, Marta I. Hernández, José Campos-Martínez, and Ramón Hernandez-Lamoneda Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain Centro de Investigaciones Químicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, 62210...

The latency of mice and rats to fall from the accelerating rotarod can differ markedly between laboratories using the same brand of rod as well as between studies using different kinds of rods. These discrepancies can arise from different rod diameters, surface textures, test protocols, or laboratory environmental factors beyond the test itself, but it is also possible that the actual accelerat...

The laser excited, jet-cooled Ã2A′′ 2 − X̃2E′′ 1 electronic spectrum of the cyclopentadienyl radical yields detailed information about the vibronic structure of both its à and X̃ states. A straight-forward assignment of the à vibronic structure is presented. The X̃ state vibronic structure reveals a comprehensive picture of the Jahn-Teller distortion of its potential energy surface. The molecular ...

Ro-vibrational calculations on a recent ab initio potential energy surface for H: (W. Meyer et al., J. Chem. Phys. 84, 891 (1986)) are presented for the isotopomers H,_.D: (n = 0, 1, 2, 3). These calculations employ refinements recently developed for nuclear motion calculations and are thus of very high accuracy. The rotational levels with .I G 4 are fitted to standard vibrationrotation Hamilto...

We analyze the optical caustic produced by light refracted at the curved meniscus surrounding a cylindrical rod standing partially out of a liquid-filled container. When the rod is tilted from the vertical or when light is diagonally incident, the caustic is a four-cusped astroid with two of its cusps obscured by the rod's shadow. If a portion of the flat end of the rod is raised above the wate...

The morphology and spectral absorption characteristics of the retinal photoreceptors in the southern hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis (Agnatha) were studied using light and electron microscopy and microspectrophotometry. The retinae of both downstream and upstream migrants of Geotria contained two types of cone photoreceptor and one type of rod photoreceptor. Visual pigments contained in th...

long range Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Ad van der Avoird, Piotr S. Żuchowski, and Rafał Podeszwa Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM), Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia, Szk...

Using the core-mass approach, we have generated a vibrational-mass surface for the triatomic H3+. The coordinate-dependent masses account for the off-resonance nonadiabatic coupling and permit a very accurate determination of the rovibrational states using a single potential energy surface. The new, high-precision measurements of 12 rovibrational transitions in the ν2 bending fundamental of H3+...