Timeline for Why does water have 9 degrees of freedom and that too all vibrational?
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| May 17 at 10:46 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Mar 29, 2017 at 7:20 | history | edited | Emilio Pisanty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 21:58 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 21:48 | comment | added | Paul B | Instead of saying water vibrates "about all three atoms" you should think about it as 3 different ways of vibrating. 1) H moves closer and farther from the O along the axis of the bond. Like a cheer-leader with their arms in a Y, bending their elbows to move their hands close or far from their head. 2) H moves closer to each other - the "V" opens wider and pinches together like a lobster claw and 3)... I'm not sure what that one is. A diatomic atom can only vibrate in one way - the atoms move close together then far apart along the axis of the bond. | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 21:24 | history | asked | Matt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |