CHAPTER 1. EXPERIMENTAL BACKGROUND AND BASIC CONCEPTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface XV
4. CHAPTER 1. EXPERIMENTAL BACKGROUND AND BASIC CONCEPTS 1
5. CHAPTER 2. ANGULAR-MOMENTUM PROPERTIES OF WAVEFUNCTIONS 33
6. CHAPTER 3. ONE-ELECTRON ATOMS 67
7. CHAPTER 4. COMPLEX ATOMS-THE VECTOR MODEL 93
8. CHAPTER 5. THE 3n-j SYMBOLS 142
9. CHAPTER 6. CONFIGURATION-AVERAGE ENERGIES 156
10. CHAPTER 7. RADIAL WAVE EQUATIONS 176
11. CHAPTER 8. RADIAL WAVEFUNCTIONS AND RADIAL INTEGRALS 214
12. CHAPTER 9. COUPLED ANTISYMMETRIC BASIS FUNCTIONS 240
13. CHAPTER 10. ENERGY LEVEL STRUCTURE (SIMPLE CONFIGURATIONS) 276
14. CHAPTER 11. THE ALGEBRA OF IRREDUCIBLE TENSOR OPERATORS 303
15. CHAPTER 12. ENERGY LEVEL STRUCTURE (COMPLEX CONFIGURATIONS) 327
16. CHAPTER 13. CONFIGURATION INTERACTION 358
17. CHAPTER 14. RADIATIVE TRANSITIONS (El) 395
18. CHAPTER 15. RADIATIVE TRANSITIONS (Ml AND E2) 442
19. CHAPTER 16. NUMERICAL CALCULATION OF ENERGY LEVELS AND SPECTRA 456
20. CHAPTER 17. EXTERNAL FIELDS AND NUCLEAR EFFECTS 485
21. CHAPTER 18. CONTINUUM STATES; IONIZATION AND RECOMBINATION 512
22. CHAPTER 19. HIGHLY IONIZED ATOMS 570
23. CHAPTER 20. RARE-EARTH AND TRANSITION ELEMENTS 598
24. CHAPTER 21. STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS 616
25. Appendix A. Physical Constants, Units, and Conversion Factors 632
26. Appendix B. Conversion Between Vacuum and Air Wavelengths 634
27. Appendix C. 3-j Symbols 635
28. Appendix D. 6-j Symbols 646
29. Appendix E. One-Electron and Total-Atom Energies 665
30. Appendix F. Basis Functions, Matrix Elements, and Racah Algebra 668
31. Appendix G. Matrix Elements of Spherical Harmonics 677
32. Appendix H. Coefficients of Fractional Parentage, U(k), V(kl) 679
33. Appendix I. Relative Line Strengths Within an LS Multiplet 694
34. Bibliography 702
35. Name Index 709
36. Subject Index 717