Introduces optical methods in chemistry, covering ray optics, lasers, spectroscopy, and X-ray physics, emphasizing light-matter interactions and Nobel Prize-winning advancements.
Explores the historical perspective, properties, and applications of X-rays, including diffraction, atomic resolution, and spectral colors of elements.
Covers the basics of optical tweezers and their applications in microscopy, manipulation, and spectroscopy, as well as the alignment of molecules using laser pulses.
Explores phonon frequencies, heat capacity, thermal properties, vibrations in solids, free electron gas, Fermi function, and density functional theory.