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The effect of anharmonicity on diatomic vibration: A spreadsheet simulation

William F. Coleman

Chemistry Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481

Kieran F. Lim

School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3217, Austrialia

J. Chem. Educ., 2005, 82 (8), p 1263

DOI: 10.1021/ed082p1263.2

Publication Date (Web): August 1, 2005

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This WebWare paper describes how a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet simulation, Anharmonicity.xls, can be used to smoothly and continuously switch a plotted function between a Morse function and its quadratic approximation.

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