Orbitals, Terms and States

A concise and comprehensive summary of the nature of orbitals, terms, levels, and states. Selected topics range from atomic and molecular spectroscopy to quantum mechanics and bonding theory. Offers brief introductions to the expansion theorem and the concept of basis functions; perturbation theory and the variational principle; secular equations and determinants; Slater determinants and antisymmetry; real versus complex orbitals; and quantum numbers and symmetry labels.