Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 140

by Stuart A. Rice (Editor)

Overview

This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470226889
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/28/2008
Series:	Advances in Chemical Physics , #302
Edition description:	Volume 140 ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Stuart A. Rice received his master's and doctorate from Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957 where he remains a well-known theoretical chemist who also does experimental research and is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the director of the James Franck Institute (the university's center for physical chemistry and condensed matter physics) from 1961 to 1967, was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1971 to 1976 and was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from 1981 to 1995. In 1999 he received the National Medal of Science.
In addition to his work at the University, he is currently on the Board of Governors at Argonne National Laboratory, managed by and affiliated with The University of Chicago, as well as Tel Aviv University. He has served as editor for Chemical Physics Letters, in addition to the series on Advances in Chemical Physics. He currently maintains a full research lab but has retired from teaching classes.

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INTRODUCTION

Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new, powerful, general concepts is as valuable as ever, and the desire to remain educated persists in all scientists. This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprenhensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field.

I. PRIGOGINE

STUART A. RICE

Table of Contents

THE SECOND LAW OF NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS: HOW FAST TIME FLIES (Phil Attard).

MULTIPARTICLE COLLISION DYNAMICS: SIMULATION OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS ON MESOSCALES (Raymond Kapral).

TWO-PATHWAY EXCITATION AS A COHERENCE SPECTROSCOPY (Tamar Seideman and Robert J. Gordon).

TIME-DEPENDENT TRANSITION STATE THEORY (Thomas Bartsch, Jeremy M. Moix, Rigoberto Hernandez, Shinnosuke Kawai, and T. Uzer).

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE REFERENCE CALCULATIONS FOR DESIGNING AND INTERPRETING P AND T VIOLATION EXPERIMENTS (Malaya K. Nayak and Rajat K. Chaudhuri).

AUTHOR INDEX.

SUBJECT INDEX.

Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new, powerful, general concepts is as valuable as ever, and the desire to remain educated persists in all scientists. This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field.

Editorial Reviews

"This book focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to pharmaceutical problems and does it well." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 25, 2009)

From the Publisher

Specialists...explain recent developments for scientists working in other areas of chemical physics.

SciTech Book News

Four papers present an overview and analysis of Doppler spectroscopy used with photofragmentation; vibrational predissociation dynamics of Van der Waals complexes and product rotational state distributions; electron scattering by small molecules; and time-dependent semiclassical mechanics. For researchers and students in chemical physics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Nine recent papers represent the current state of chemical physics. They discuss transition path sampling, chemical reaction dynamics, chaos, single molecule spectroscopy, self-similarity, electron- correlated approaches, the computational chemistry of acids, cooperative effects of hydrogen bonding, and nonadiabatic electron- transfer reactions. Numerous charts and graphs provide a visual display of the data. The contributors include chemical engineers, chemical biologists, and other scientists from the United States, Japan, Brazil, and Germany. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR