Timeline for The concept of normal coordinates of a molecule
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| Sep 5, 2019 at 2:36 | comment | added | Geoff Hutchison | @M.Farooq - no worries - I could see that you didn't make the connection, so I clarified. I rarely teach the details of normal coordinate analysis because most people now just leave it to the computer. "Simply" was meant more as a mathematical term than a value judgement. :-) | |
| Sep 5, 2019 at 2:10 | history | edited | Geoff Hutchison | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2019 at 2:03 | history | edited | Geoff Hutchison | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2019 at 1:59 | comment | added | Geoff Hutchison | @M.Farooq - but the 'normal coordinates' (q) are simply the displacements along the normal modes, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_vibration#Normal_coordinates | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 18:43 | history | edited | Tyberius♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2019 at 17:20 | comment | added | ACR | Thank you Geoff, what you have discussed is the concept of normal modes. I am more specifically looking for the mathematical concept of normal coordinates (q) as used in vibrational spectroscopy. | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 16:40 | history | answered | Geoff Hutchison | CC BY-SA 4.0 |