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So you’re writing your first post…
Submitted by skassel on September 23, 2009 – 3:58 pm | No Comment
So you’re writing your first post…

You found an article that really grabbed your attention and you cannot wait to share it. Great! So where do you begin? Start by choosing a specific idea, fact, or result and use it to …

Assignment update
Submitted by skassel on October 28, 2008 – 11:22 am | No Comment

A table of completed assignments is available on the wiki. Please don’t wait until the last minute to complete your assignments. Nicole and I are available for help both subject wise and in getting your …

still looking for suggestions…
Submitted by skassel on October 19, 2008 – 9:17 pm | One Comment

I’m still looking for suggestions for this website now that we’ve been up and running for a couple of months. My goal is to make it as functional as possible without cluttering it up. A …

Week 2 review – character tables and representations
Submitted by skassel on September 6, 2008 – 3:40 pm | No Comment
Week 2 review – character tables and representations

We built on our discussion of symmetry and introduction to character tables by ‘generating’ the character table for the C2v point group using the set of coordinate vectors (and the idea of ‘orthogonality’), and defined …

Week 1 review – molecular symmetry and an introduction to group theory
Submitted by skassel on September 2, 2008 – 9:14 am | No Comment
Week 1 review – molecular symmetry and an introduction to group theory

The focus this week has been on molecular symmetry, symmetry elements and operations, point groups and point group assignment, with a brief intro to character tables.
A few take home points:

a molecule is considered to have …