Fundamentals Of Molecular Spectroscopy

Features mentioned in this highly popular text have been made it attractive to students and lecturers. It is an elementary and non-mathematical introduction to molecular spectroscopy that emphasizes the overall unity of the subject and offers a pictorial perception rather than a mathematical description of the principles of spectroscopy. The most significant change in this edition is the inclusion of totally new chapter on the spectroscopy of surfaces and solids. This topic has come of age in the years since the publication of the third edition and will become incresingly important in the future. The new chapter discusses the application of techniques to the solid state, featured earlier in the text and brings together related topics such as photoelectron and X-Ray flourescence. In additoion many new diagrams and end of the chapter problems have been included throughout, along with spectra that have been re-recorded on modern instruments.