TY - BOOK AU - Vincent, Alan TI - Molecular symmetry and group theory SN - 9780471489399 PY - 2001/// CY - West Sessex PB - Wiley, KW - Degenerate representations KW - Matrices KW - Point groups KW - Linear combinations N1 - Bibliography 173p.; Index 186-191p.; Reprint 2010 N2 - Written in a clear, concise manner, the author introduces a series of programmes that help students learn at their own pace and enable to them understand the subject fully. Readers are taken through a series of carefully constructed exercises, designed to simplify the mathematics and give them a full understanding of how this relates to the chemistry. This second edition contains a new chapter on the projection operator method. This is used to calculate the form of the normal modes of vibration of a molecule and the normalised wave functions of hybrid orbitals or molecular orbitals ER -