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Atomic Spectroscopy - Eigenvector Composition of Levels

10. Eigenvector Composition of Levels The wave functions of levels are often expressed as eigenvectors that are linear combinations of...

Atomic Spectroscopy - Different Coupling Schemes

9. Notations for Different Coupling Schemes The following examples make clear the meaning of the different coupling-scheme notations. Not...

Atomic Spectroscopy - Allowed Terms

8. Allowed Terms of Levels for Equivalent Electrons LS Coupling The allowed LS terms of a configuration consisting of two...

Atomic Spectroscopy - Helium-like Ions; LS Coupling

6. Helium and Helium-like Ions; LS Coupling The energy structure of the normal 1 snl configurations is dominated by the electron-nucleus and...

Atomic Spectroscopy - Atomic States, Shells, and Configurations

3. Atomic States, Shells, and Configurations A one-electron atomic state is defined by the quantum numbers nlm lm s or nljm j, with n and l...

Atomic Spectroscopy - Introduction

1. Introduction This article outlines the main concepts of atomic structure, with some emphasis on terminology and notation. Atomic...

Atomic Spectroscopy - Version History

Example of how to reference this online database: (Replace year, month day with database access date.) W.C. Martin and W.L. Wiese (2002)...

CNST Welcomes New Deputy Director

October 3, 2016

For James Kushmerick, who became the deputy director of CNST on Oct. 3, joining the Center “feels like I’m getting back to my roots.” In 1994, Kushmerick was

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Transfer and working standard radiometers and photometers

To decrease the large measurement-uncertainty gap between cryogenic radiometer measurements (such as those made by the NIST Primary optical watt radiometer) and

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Until recently calibrations of tristimulus colorimeters were performed against lamp standards. However, the uncertainty of these source-based calibrations

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LEVEL O CD_contents.html: This file Readme.html: Project overview and directions for conducting the evaluation cifterLetter.html: Wayne Gray...

CIFter Overview

Overview of the CIFter project The CIFter Project was created by The National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) to promote the...

NIST-Made ‘Sun and Rain’ Detail How Nanoparticles Can Escape from Plastic Coatings into the Environment

September 30, 2016

If the 1967 film “The Graduate” were remade today, Mr. McGuire’s famous advice to young Benjamin Braddock would probably be updated to “Plastics … with

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JWANDS-Readme

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CIFter Tasks-Readme

What the directory contains: this file -- Readme.html CIFter_Tasks.html -- list of tasks specified by TMF. CIFter_Tasks.doc -- same content...

NIST/CIFter Tasks

NIST/CIFter Tasks (as characterized by TMF) The Motley Fool Audience: USER PROFILE 1: a naive to novice knowledge level investor recently...

VisVIP Readme

What the directory contains: Readme.html -- this file VisVIP.exe -- a self-extracting installation of VisVIP ///////////////////////////////...

Flud-Readme

What the directory contains: Readme.html: this file draft-format.html -- definition of format and its elements /////////////////////////////...

Flud-draft-format

The FLUD format: Logging Usability Data from Web-based Applications John Cugini / cuz [at] nist.gov (cuz[at]nist[dot]gov) Information Technology Laboratory National...

Novel 3-in-1 “Rheo-Raman” Microscope Enables Interconnected Studies of Soft Materials

October 4, 2016

An innovative three-in-one instrument that allows scientists to correlate the flowability of soft “gooey” materials such as gels, molten polymers and biological

‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopeless and Act Recklessly, New Study Suggests

October 4, 2016

After updating your password for the umpteenth time, have you resorted to using one you know you’ll remember because you’ve used it before? Have you ever given

Methane Symmetry Operations - Acknowledgements and References

The author would like to express his appreciation to a number of colleagues, particularly Drs. W.S. Benedict, R.F. Curl, W.J. Lafferty, I.M...

Methane Symmetry Operations - Time-Reversal Hermitian Conjugation

17. The Compound Operation Time-Reversal Hermitian Conjugation It is sometimes convenient, especially when investigating the legitimacy...

Methane Symmetry Operations - Vibration-rotation operators

16.4 Vibration-rotation operators in the transformed Hamiltonian It is common to treat the vibration-rotation problem in methane using...

Exciton Fate in Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes: Thermodynamics and Relaxation Kinetics

Wed, Sep 28 2016

One of the most remarkable characteristics of single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNT) is their diversity of well-defined

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Methane Symmetry Operations - Coupling of vibrational and rotational basis functions

16.2 Coupling of vibrational and rotational basis functions Let us now apply ( eq. 59) to two examples. First consider the coupling of...

TMFsite-Instrumented-Readme

What the directory contains: This directory (TMFsite_instrumented) contains the root of the instrumented Motley Fool website with Javascript...

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