Use of local modes in the description of highly vibrationally excited molecules
Use of local modes in the description of highly vibrationally excited molecules
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使用局部模式来描述高度振动激发的分子
DOI:
10.1021/ar50114a003
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
18.3
通讯作者:
B. Henry
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作者:
B. Henry
The existence of normal modes of vibration is ele-gantly demonstrated in a film by Crawford andOv-erend. 1 A loosely coupled eccentric motor excites a ball and spring model of the carbon dioxide molecule. As the frequency of rotation of the motor increases, the chaotic motions of the excited “atoms” are resolved into a coherent bending motion. A further increase in the frequency of the motor again procedures chaos until, at some higher frequency, the symmetric stretching motion appears and finally, at even higher frequency, the antisymmetric stretch. Thus we see directly that at these “natural” frequencies each “atom” inthe “molecule” is moving with the same frequency and phase so that each “atom” reaches its position of maximum displacement at the same time and each “atom” passes through its equilibrium position at the same time.These are the familar characteristics of normal modes and they arise analytically from the assumption that vibrational motion in polyatomic molecules follows a harmonic forcelaw. In terms of the normal coordinates, Qi, along which normal-mode motion occurs, both the potential and kinetic energies are diagonal in the harmonic approximation (eq 1). Thus the molecule can