Do you know the basics?

ORBYTS students doing MARVEL should be able to answer these questions by part-way through your project. If you are having trouble with these, ask your tutor or look at some of the other tabs.

1. What is a vibration in a molecule?
2. What is a rotational in a molecule?
3. Where is your molecule found?
4. What is your molecule important for?
5. For diatomics, what are the main low-lying electronic states of your molecule? For polyatomics, what are the vibrational modes of your molecule?
6. What are the important quantum numbers in your molecule?
7. What does the term "assigned transition frequency mean?"
8. What is the difference between a transition frequency and an energy level?
9. What does MARVEL do?
10. What is digitisation
11. What is the MARVEL format your group has agreed on? Explain each of the columns.
12. What does it mean by "uncertainty" of the transition frequency? How can you find this value?
13. What does it mean to follow all the references within a paper?
14. What does it mean to follow all the citations to a paper?
15. What is a bibtex entry? How do you get these? What are they used for?
16. What is our convention for naming papers? What is a bibtex tag?

Some bonus questions... (feel free to look at your notes)

For diatomics

1. What does Huber & Herzberg say about your molecule?

For polyatomics

1. What is an overtone transition? What is a hot spectral band?

Some questions to ask at the end of your project:

1. Who has worked a lot on your molecule in the past? (i.e. which authors are very common in your reference list)
2. What transition has been studied the most in your molecule?
3. What vibrational levels/ electronic states are not well understood in your molecule?
4. If you could do any experiment on your molecule that you want, which would you do? Why?