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On the Theory of Excitation by Collision with Heavy Particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

N. F. Mott
N. F. Mott
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius College
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1. It has been shown, in a well-known paper by Born and Oppenheimer, that in evaluating the energy levels of a molecule, the nuclei may be treated as fixed, or slowly vibrating, centres of force. If M be the average mass of the nuclei, and m the mass of an electron, the error involved in doing this is of order of magnitude (m/M)½. The possibility therefore of treating the nuclei as fixed depends on their great mass, compared with that of the electron.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , October 1931 , pp. 553 - 560
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1931

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