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• 1. Schroedinger Equation and Its Application.- 2. Quantum-Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator.- 3. Hydrogen-Like Atoms.- 4. Optical Transition and Selection Rules.- 5. Maxwell's Equations.- 6. Reflection and Transmission of Electromagnetic Waves in Dielectric Media.- 7. Light Quanta: Radiation and Absorption.- 8. Introductory Green's Functions.- 9. Vectors and Their Transformation.- 10. Canonical Forms of Matrices
• 11. Inner Product Space.- 12. Hermitian Operators and Unitary Operators.-13. Introductory Group Theory.-14. Symmetry Groups.-15. Representation Theory of Groups.-16. Applications of Group Theory to Physical Chemistry.
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This book introduces basic concepts of mathematical physics to chemists. Many textbooks and monographs of mathematical physics may appear daunting to them. Unlike other, related books, however, this one contains a practical selection of material, particularly for graduate and undergraduate students majoring in chemistry. The book first describes quantum mechanics and electromagnetism, with the relation between the two being emphasized. Although quantum mechanics covers a broad field in modern physics, the author focuses on a hydrogen(like) atom and a harmonic oscillator with regard to the operator method. This approach helps chemists understand the basic concepts of quantum mechanics aided by their intuitive understanding without abstract argument, as chemists tend to think of natural phenomena and other factors intuitively rather than only logically. The study of light propagation, reflection, and transmission in dielectric media is of fundamental importance. This book explains these processes on the basis of Maxwell equations. The latter half of the volume deals with mathematical physics in terms of vectors and their transformation in a vector space. Finally, as an example of chemical applications, quantum chemical treatment of methane is introduced, including a basic but essential explanation of Green functions and group theory. Methodology developed by the author will also prove to be useful to physicists. .
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• Preface
• Introduction
• Hierarchy of Terms in the Effective Hamiltonian
• Spectroscopic Perturbations: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous
• The Effective Hamiltonian for Diatomic Molecules
• Rotation of Polyatomic Molecules
• Quantum Beats.- The Effective Hamiltonian for Polyatomic Molecule Vibration
• Intramolecular Dynamics: Representations, Visualizations and Mechanisms.

• 3.6 Intensity Borrowed from a Nearby Bright State3.7 Intensity Borrowed from an Energetically Remote Bright State; 3.8 Intensity Interference Effects; References; 4 The Effective Hamiltonian for Diatomic Molecules; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Main Topics of This Lecture; 4.2.1 R-Dependence; 4.2.2 How Do We Account for Interactions with Energetically Remote States; 4.2.3 Van Vleck Transformation; 4.3 R-Dependence Is Encoded in v, J Dependence; 4.3.1 Transition Moments: μ (R) →Mv, v; 4.3.2 Centrifugal Distortion, De; 4.3.3 Vibration-Rotation Interaction, αe: A Small Surprise.

These seven lectures are intended to serve as an introduction for beginning graduate students to the spectra of small molecules. The author succeeds in illustrating the concepts by using language and metaphors that capture and elegantly convey simple insights into dynamics that lie beyond archival molecular constants. The lectures can simultaneously be viewed as a collection of interlocking special topics that have fascinated the author and his students over the years. Though neither a textbook nor a scholarly monograph, the book provides an illuminating perspective that will benefit students and researchers alike.

• Random Variables.- Sequence of Independent Variables.- Langevin equation.- Fokker-Planck Equation I.- Fokker-Planck Equation II.- Markov Chains.- Master Equation I.- Master Equation II.- Phase Transitions and Criticality.- Reactive Systems.- Glauber Model.- Systems with Inversion Symmetry.- Systems with Absorbing States.- Population Dynamics.- Probabilistic Cellular automata.- Reaction-Diffusion Processes.- Random Sequential Adsoprtion.- Percolation.
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This textbook presents an exposition of stochastic dynamics and irreversibility. It comprises the principles of probability theory and the stochastic dynamics in continuous spaces, described by Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations, and in discrete spaces, described by Markov chains and master equations. Special concern is given to the study of irreversibility, both in systems that evolve to equilibrium and in nonequilibrium stationary states. Attention is also given to the study of models displaying phase transitions and critical phenomena both in thermodynamic equilibrium and out of equilibrium. These models include the linear Glauber model, the Glauber-Ising model, lattice models with absorbing states such as the contact process and those used in population dynamic and spreading of epidemic, probabilistic cellular automata, reaction-diffusion processes, random sequential adsorption and dynamic percolation. A stochastic approach to chemical reaction is also presented.The textbook is intended for students of physics and chemistry and for those interested in stochastic dynamics. It provides, by means of examples and problems, a comprehensive and detailed explanation of the theory and its applications.
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• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1941-1949
• The Journey, January 29 to February 7, 1949
• Early Life and Education, London, 1903-1929
• Medical Physicist Part I, London, 1929-1944
• The Unknown Years and UNESCO, Paris, 1944-1948
• Replacing Radium, 1937-1949
• The Arrival, Houston, February 1949
• The Cobalt Unit, 1949-1954
• Medical Physicist Part II, Houston, 1949-1951
• Cobalt-60 and the Notebook
• Cobalt-60 in Perspective.

For the latter half of the 20th century, cobalt-60 units were the mainstay of radiation treatments for cancer. Cobalt Blues describes the development of the first cobalt-60 unit in the United States and the man behind it, Leonard Grimmett. Conceptually conceived before World War II, it only became possible because of the development of nuclear reactors during the war. Although Grimmett conceived of and published his ideas first, the Canadians built the first units because of the capability of their reactor to produce more suitable cobalt-60 sources. This book tells the story of how Grimmett and others came together at the time that the U S Atomic Energy Agency was pushing the use of radioactivity in medicine. Due to his sudden death, very little information about Grimmett was known until recently, when various documents have come to light, allowing the full story to be told.

• Theory and Experiment -- why we need TDDFT. Short-Pulse Physics / Franck Lépine
• Spectroscopy in the Frequency Domain / Simo Huotari
• The Microscopic Description of a Macroscopic Experiment / Silvana Botti, Matteo Gatti
• Basic theory. Introduction to TDDFT / Eberhard K.U. Gross, Neepa T. Maitra
• Exact Conditions and Their Relevance in TDDFT / Lucas O. Wagner, Zeng-hui Yang, Kieron Burke
• Orbital Functionals / Stephan Kümmel
• Response Functions in TDDFT: Concepts and Implementation / David A. Strubbe, Lauri Lehtovaara, Angel Rubio, Miguel A.L. Marques, Steven G. Louie
• Memory: History, Initial-State Dependence, and Double-Excitations / Neepa T. Maitra
• Advanced concepts. Beyond the Runge-Gross Theorem / Michael Ruggenthaler, Robert van Leeuwen
• Open Quantum Systems: Density Matrix Formalism and Applications / David G. Tempel, Joel Yuen-Zhou, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
• Open Quantum Systems: A Stochastic Perspective / Heiko Appel
• Multicomponent Density-Functional Theory / Robert van Leeuwen, Eberhard K.U. Gross
• Quantum Optimal Control / Alberto Castro, Eberhard K.U. Gross
• Real-time dynamics. Non-Born-Oppenheimer Dynamics and Conical Intersections / Mark E. Casida, Bhaarathi Natarajan, Thierry Deutsch
• On the Combination of TDDFT with Molecular Dynamics: New Developments / José L. Alonso, Alberto Castro, Pablo Echenique, Angel Rubio
• Excited-State Properties and Dynamics / Dmitrij Rappoport, Jürg Hutter
• Electronic Transport / Stefan Kurth
• Atoms and Molecules in Strong Laser Fields / Carsten A. Ullrich, André D. Bandrauk
• Numerical aspects. The Liouville-Lanczos Approach to Time-Dependent Density-Functional (Perturbation) Theory / Stefano Baroni, Ralph Gebauer
• The Projector Augmented Wave Method / Lauri Lehtovaara
• Harnessing the Power of Graphic Processing Units / Xavier Andrade, Luigi Genovese
• TDDFT vs other theoretical techniques. Dispersion (van der Waals) Forces and TDDFT / John F. Dobson
• Nonlocal Van Der Waals Density Functionals Based on Local Response Models / Oleg A. Vydrov, Troy Van Voorhis
• Time-Dependent Current Density Functional Theory / Giovanni Vignale
• Time-Dependent Deformation Functional Theory / Ilya V. Tokatly
• Time-Dependent Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory / Klaas J.H. Giesbertz, Oleg V. Gritsenko, Evert Jan Baerends.

There have been many significant advances in time-dependent density functional theory over recent years, both in enlightening the fundamental theoretical basis of the theory, as well as in computational algorithms and applications. This book, as successor to the highly successful volume Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (Lect. Notes Phys. 706, 2006) brings together for the first time all recent developments in a systematic and coherent way. First, a thorough pedagogical presentation of the fundamental theory is given, clarifying aspects of the original proofs and theorems, as well as presenting fresh developments that extend the theory into new realms-such as alternative proofs of the original Runge-Gross theorem, open quantum systems, and dispersion forces to name but a few. Next, all of the basic concepts are introduced sequentially and building in complexity, eventually reaching the level of open problems of interest. Contemporary applications of the theory are discussed, from real-time coupled-electron-ion dynamics, to excited-state dynamics and molecular transport. Last but not least, the authors introduce and review recent advances in computational implementation, including massively parallel architectures and graphical processing units. Special care has been taken in editing this volume as a multi-author textbook, following a coherent line of thought, and making all the relevant connections between chapters and concepts consistent throughout. As such it will prove to be the text of reference in this field, both for beginners as well as expert researchers and lecturers teaching advanced quantum mechanical methods to model complex physical systems, from molecules to nanostructures, from biocomplexes to surfaces, solids and liquids. From the reviews of LNP 706: "This is a well structured text, with a common set of notations and a single comprehensive and up-to-date list of references, rather than just a compilation of research articles. Because of its clear organization, the book can be used by novices (basic knowledge of ground-state DFT is assumed) and experienced users of TD-DFT, as well as developers in the field." (Anna I. Krylov, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 129 (21), 2007) "This book is a treasure of knowledge and I highly recommend it. Although it is a compilation of chapters written by many different leading researchers involved in development and application of TDDFT, the contributors have taken great care to make sure the book is pedagogically sound and the chapters complement each other [...]. It is highly accessible to any graduate student of chemistry or physics with a solid grounding in many-particle quantum mechanics, wishing to understand both the fundamental theory as well as the exponentially growing number of applications. [...] In any case, no matter what your background is, it is a must-read and an excellent reference to have on your shelf." Amazon.com, October 15, 2008, David Tempel (Cambridge, MA).
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• Conocimiento científico, ciencia escolar y enseñanza de las ciencias en la educación secundaria / Antonio de Pro
• Competencia científica y competencia profesional en la enseñanza de las ciencias / Pedro Cañal
• Las secuencias didácticas en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las ciencias : modelos para su diseño y validación / Digna Couso
• Las concepciones de 'modelo' de los alumnos, la construcción de modelos y el aprendizaje de las ciencias / Rosária Justi
• La enseñanza dialógica en la construcción del conocimiento físico y químico / Jaume Ametller
• Argumentación y uso de pruebas : construcción, evaluación y comunicación de explicaciones en Física y Química / María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre y Juan Ramón Gallástegui
• Los trabajos prácticos en Física y Química : interpretar e investigar / Aureli Caamaño
• Las tecnologías digitales en la enseñanza de la Física y de la Química / Roser Pintó
• Evaluar para aprender, evaluar para calificar / Neus Sanmartí.

• Naturaleza de la ciencia y construcción del conocimiento científico / Ana Rivero y Ana María Wamba
• Historia de la física y enseñanza de la Física / Jordi Solbes y Manel Traver
• Historia de la química y enseñanza de la Química / Mercè Izquierdo
• Fronteras del conocimiento y de la investigación en física / Josep Enric Llebot
• Fronteras del conocimiento y de la investigación en química / Àngel Messeguer
• Problemas ambientales y sostenibilidad / Daniel Gil y Amparo Vilches
• Las ciencias en la ESO desde la perspectiva de la alfabetización científica / María Jesús Martín-Díaz, María Sagrario Gutiérrez Julián
• La Química en el bachillerato : por una química en contexto / Aureli Caamaño
• La Física en el bachillerato : por una física más atractiva / Jordi Solbes
• Las Ciencias para el mundo contemporáneo en el bachillerato / Emilio Pedrinaci.

• Formación del profesorado de ciencias y buenas prácticas : el lugar de la innovación y la investigación didáctica / Vicente Mellado
• Unidades didácticas y proyectos de calidad en la enseñanza de la Física / Digna Couso, María Isabel Hernández, Roser Pintó, Fina Guitart, Octavi Plana
• Unidades didácticas y proyectos de calidad en la enseñanza de la Química / Aureli Caamaño y Fina Guitart
• Experimentos e investigaciones en Química / Josep Corominas
• Experimentos e investigaciones en Física / Antxon Anta y César Sancho
• El uso de sensores y equipos de captación de datos en los trabajos prácticos de Física y Química / Montserrat Tortosa y Julián Oro
• Simulaciones : herramientas para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en Física y Química / Octavi Casellas y Fina Guitart
• La enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la terminología físico-química : magnitudes y símbolos / Aureli Caamaño y Glinda Irazoque
• El trabajo de investigación en el bachillerato y el proyecto de investigación en 4⁰ de educación secundaria obligatoria / Manel Belmonte
• El prácticum en el aula de ciencias (Física y Química) : orientaciones para el diseño, la experimentación y la evaluación de actividades / Antonio de Pro.