| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 624 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Fundamental ideas -- Molecules at work -- Isolated lines -- Overlapping lines -- Liouville formalism -- Line shape theory -- Absorption by gases |
| Summary |
"This is a book about pressure broadening the shape of spectral lines. It is primarily aimed at atmospheric physicists concerned with gas phase radiative transfer, but reaches out, more generally, to anyone who is interested in line broadening by neutral perturbers. The only conditions I have imposed are that the pressure of the gas must be sufficiently low, as in the atmosphere, to ensure that collisions may be regarded as binary in nature, yet sufficiently high to establish local thermodynamic equilibrium, which will be true of the atmosphere except at very high altitudes. To the extent that these conditions are still met, the book will be useful to astrophysicists concerned with broadening of this kind within the atmospheres of other planets, stars even, and I give some pointers at the very end to show in what way the theories discussed here may be used when the gas is ionized. It may also appeal to students of quantum mechanics or spectroscopy more generally. This is because it proceeds from acorn to oak tree in an explanatory and accessible manner, and will show how quantum interactions that are hidden at the molecular level lead to ows of energy that may be observed at any time at the level of common experience"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2020) |
| Subject |
Pressure broadening.
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Spectral line broadening.
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Atmospheric physics.
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Atmospheric physics
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Pressure broadening
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Spectral line broadening
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019043636 |
| ISBN |
9781108768825 |
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1108768822 |
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1108854583 |
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9781108854580 |
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