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Dipole moment of the 3P state of HN as determined from optical observations of the Stark effect

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The value of the dipole moment ,μ, of NH in the A³π state was found to be 1.31 ± .03 Debye. This value was determined from data on the Stark effect measured from spectrograms of the A³π- X³Σ-, 3360 Å, band taken on a 3.4 meter grating spectrograph in third order giving a resolution of about 100,000. The theory of the Stark effect in molecules was taken from papers by W. G. Penny5 and Van Vleck and Hill9 . The magnitude of the electric field was determined from the Stark splitting of the hydrogen line Hβ according to the theory given in The Theory of Atomic Spectra6 . In the near future I should be able to complete work on the c’π→a’Δ, 3240 Å, band and give the values of the dipole moments for states c and a as well. Thus it will be possible to determine how the dipole moment changes with electronic configuration.

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2011-10-31

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38467

Physics

University of British Columbia

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