Chemistry · 19. Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry

19.4Spectroscopic and Magnetic Properties of Coordination Compounds

Section · module m68844

What this needs

Learn these first — this section will not make sense without them.

Nothing in the algebra book is a prerequisite for this section.

What this touches

Algebra that turns up here. Not a blocker, but this is where you will see it used.

  • Computing Δ_oct from an absorbed wavelength chains ν = c/λ into E = hν — two variation substitutions in a row — and the classic wrong intuition (longer wavelength means more energy) is exactly the error variation problems are built to catch, since E is inversely proportional to λ, not directly.