Fundamentals to Applications in Chemistry, Biochem

While this book describes many types of optical spectroscopies and their applications to chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics, the spirit of the book is broader. It is about light, how light interacts with matter, and what we can learn from these interactions. These are topics that have puzzled and astonished people for thousands of years, and continue to do so today. To understand how molecules respond to light we first must inquire into why molecules exist in well-defined states and h...