J.D.Lee writes in his book Concise Inorganic Chemistry:
[...] An alternative method for determining the symmetry of the molecular orbital is to rotate the orbital about the line joining the two nuclei and then rotate the orbital about the line perpendicular to this. If the sign of the lobes r...
Recently I tried to edit two questions, this one and this one. Both my edits were rejected by Community$\diamondsuit$, which I take as "automatically rejected", because they conflicted with a subsequent edit. Both edits were simply formal: I edited math formulas to make it cleaner and more unders...
In an answer to this question, I showed that a general electric quadrupole can be modeled by a combination of seven point charges (or possibly less if one or two of the principal quadrupole moments is zero, or if they add to zero). This is likely the minimal number, or at least it is likely to be...
The answer is YES. It's true that the coordinate system (u′,v′,w′) is related to (x′,y′,z′) also by the orthonormal matrix A, at least under the Lorentz Transformations used in the following. But please, let use other symbols (for example it's custom to use $\;\upsilon\;$ for the algebraic magnit...
You're actually hitting on a very famous concept here that revolutionized physics!!
Your understanding is almost wholly correct and your analogy is a good one - excellent reasoning - the only thing missing is radiation from the system. This latter lack is mostly irrelevant for the level of quest...
