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Physical Chemistry 3: — Chemical Kinetics — - Christian-Albrechts ...

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8.3 Generalized Lindemann-Hinshelwood mechanism 185<br />

8.3.3 The density of vibrational states ρ (E)<br />

Thedensityofvibrationalstatesisdefined as<br />

() =<br />

number of states in energy interval<br />

energy interval<br />

(8.41)<br />

i.e.,<br />

() =<br />

()<br />

<br />

(8.42)<br />

In a polyatomic molecule, as we shall see in the following, () increases with very<br />

rapidly owing to the large number of overtone and combination states, and reaches truly<br />

astronomical values:<br />

a) s =1:<br />

() = 1<br />

<br />

(8.43)<br />

b) s =2:<br />

We consider the ways, in which we can distribute two identical energy quanta between<br />

the two oscillators:<br />

Osc. 1 Osc. 2 Osc. 1 Osc. 2 Osc. 1 Osc. 2 Osc. 1 Osc. 2 <br />

0 - - 1<br />

| - - | 2<br />

2 || - | | - || 3<br />

3 ||| - || | | || - ||| 4<br />

4 5<br />

5 6<br />

.<br />

.<br />

.<br />

.<br />

(8.44)<br />

c) s oscillators:<br />

• For simplicity, we consider a molecule with identical harmonic oscillators.<br />

• This molecule shall be excited with quanta, eachofsize, i.e., the molecule<br />

has the excitation energy = <br />

I<br />

Question: How can we distribute these quanta over the oscillators?

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