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11:19 Nov 10, 2011 |
French to English translations [PRO] Science - Physics / procédé de génération | |||||||
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4 +1 | well-bottom |
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5 | vibrational frequency |
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well-bottom Explanation: * -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 32 minutes (2011-11-10 11:51:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Or, bottom of the well e.g. This means the particle spends most of its time at the bottom of the potential well, as we would expect for a state with little energy. |
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vibrational frequency Explanation: The clue is in the following sentence, where it says that they are discussing a "Raman-type" phenomenon. The "puits", or well, is the potential well of the chemical bond, and the bottom of the well corresponds to the equilibrium length of the chemical bond (actually, you can never get to the bottom of the well because of something called zero-point energy, but I digress) Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_scattering Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_potential |
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