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Basic Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy. J. Michael Hollas. New York: Wiley Interscience, 2002, 192 pp., $34.95, softcover. ISBN 0-471-28162-X.

Department of Chemistry, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115

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As the title suggests, this book is a basic overview of atomic and molecular spectroscopy. The Preface states that spectroscopy and quantum mechanics are intimately related. This can be supported by simply glancing at the Table of Contents: approximately one-half of the chapters are about quantum mechanics; only about one-half of the chapters discuss spectroscopy directly.

The book is generally well written and should be accessible to those who have not had either quantum mechanics or spectroscopy in a pre-vious course. Both quantum mechanics and spectroscopy can be heavily mathematical, but the . . . [Full Text of this Article]