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Modern Optical Spectroscopy

With Exercises and Examples from Biophysics and Biochemistry

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  • Student edition now with an exercise section
  • Emphasizes theoretical understanding and draws most of its examples from biophysics and biochemistry
  • Clear, thoroughly illustrated explanations that begin from first principles
  • Text began as lecture notes for a course on optical spectroscopy that the author taught for graduate students in biochemistry and chemistry
  • Extra details and highlights are featured in special boxes throughout the text
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-27
  3. Light

    Pages 73-108
  4. Electronic Absorption

    Pages 109-188
  5. Fluorescence

    Pages 189-240
  6. Vibrational Absorption

    Pages 241-257
  7. Exciton Interactions

    Pages 281-305
  8. Circular Dichroism

    Pages 307-334
  9. Coherence and Dephasing

    Pages 335-376
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 447-512

About this book

The student edition of Modern Optical Spectroscopy includes a new set of exercises for each chapter. The exercises and problems generally emphasize basic points, and often include simpli?ed absorption or emission spectra or molecular orbitals that can be evaluated easily with the aid of a calculator or spreadsheet. Students who are adept at computer programming will ?nd it instructive to try to write algorithms that also could be applied to larger, more complicated sets of data. Spectraintroducedinsomeofthe problems forChaps.4and5areusedagain in later chapters to illustrate how quantities calculated from the spectra can be applied to topics such as resonance energy transfer and exciton interactions. Seattle, November, 2008 William W. Parson Preface This book began as lecture notes for a course on optical spectroscopy that I taught for graduate students in biochemistry, chemistry, and our interdisciplinary programs in molecular biophysics and biomolecular structure and design. I startedexpanding the notes partly to try to illuminate the stream of new experimental information on photosynthetic antennas and reaction centers, but mostly just for fun. I hope that readers will ?nd the results not only useful, but also as stimulating as I have.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    William W. Parson

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