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The book reviews our present knowledge of collision-induced absorption of infrared radiation in dense gases. The book starts with a recapitulation of essential background information. Experimental results for the absorption spectra are next discussed. Then the causes and properties of dipole moments induced by molecular interactions are reviewed. Two following chapters present the theory of collision-induced absorption in monatomic gas mixtures and in molecular … More >>
Collision-induced Absorption in Gases
Tags: absorption spectra, background information, dense gases, dipole moments, experimental results, gas mixtures, infrared radiation, molecular interactions, recapitulation
#1 by Michael H. Wofsey on June 27, 2010 - 11:27 am
I wasn’t going to write a review for this book, because I am new to the field. However I thought the other review was too harsh.
I find the book useful, and very readable. I think the point of this book is that it DOES present and collect research in the field. I can look up all the Physical Review articles I need to find out the cutting-edge research in this area.
But that isn’t the purpose of this book, it’s obviously meant to be a resource, and it does a good job with that. I wish it had a bit more coverage of the type of transitions that I will be doing in my research, but again, I can go to PRL for that.
What I cannot do in PRL is assemble a comprehensive background, and this is the only book that I know of that does that for Coll. Induced Absorption.
I hope to update this review when my knowledge of the field rises. My own work is to be in oxygen reactions.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by physics student on June 27, 2010 - 12:34 pm
Michael H. Wofsey’s review is correct. Frommhold was the first to use high-quality potential
energy surfaces and induced dipole moments to calculate collision-induced spectra, and the
agreement he obtained with observation is impressive. His calculations, in fact, transformed
the field. Frommhold is careful, and carefully gives the dependencies of the induced
dipole moments and forces on the various relevant angles and distances. It is that in particular
that makes his book a resource. And the original sources are now somwhat obscure – tracking down
Poll’s contributions in Can. J. Phys. (much of the original work was not published in Phys. Rev.),
or in the Proceedings of the Auch conference, for instance, is not much fun. But Frommhold has
done so.
I have owned three copies of this book; the first two have “disappeared”, presumptively to various
graduate students.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on June 27, 2010 - 3:33 pm
this book was more or less a review of a lot of experimental results in the area, nothing paricularly interesting.
Rating: 1 / 5