Explores Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics, a unified approach combining molecular dynamics and density-functional theory for simulating various systems, with a focus on historical background, technical details, and challenges in atomistic simulations.
Introduces optical methods in chemistry, covering ray optics, lasers, spectroscopy, and X-ray physics, emphasizing light-matter interactions and Nobel Prize-winning advancements.
Explores the photon concept in electromagnetic waves, including energy, momentum, emission by charges, coherence length, and the electromagnetic spectrum.