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The goal of this document is to provide students
with an introduction to Franck-Condon Factors and the
relationship of these factors to vibronic spectroscopy. The
document contains a very brief introduction to Franck-Condon
factors through a sequence of guided inquiry exercises.
Specifically, students are asked to use potential energy diagrams for a
diatomic molecule to examine a transition in the
diatomic molecule from a ground electronic state to
an excited electronic state including consideration
of the vibrational levels of each state. The overlap of
vibrational wave functions is used
to introduce Franck-Condon factors.
Simulation of a UV-vis spectrum from
FranckCondonComputation.mcd.
All of the exercises in this document are done with
pencil and paper as preparation for more detailed work to be
done in the companion computational document "The
Franck-Condon Factors".
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