MOLECULES and the Chemical Bond is about understanding
Schrodinger s equation, for chemical systems.
In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman quotes Paul
Dirac on what it means to understand an equation. I understand what
an equation means, said Dirac, if I have a way of figuring out the
characteristics of its solutions without actually solving it. That
hits the nail on the head It s precisely what Conceptual Valence
Bond Theory does for Schrodinger s equation.
A physical understanding of an equation, adds Feynman, is a
completely unmathematical, imprecise, and inexact thing, but
absolutely necessary for a physicist. It unfolds in MCB in two
stages, described by Newton as a stage of Analysis (a union of
observations and inductions) and a stage of Synthesis (use of
inductions, accepted as first principles, to explain
observations).
The book s chief vehicle for creating an intuitive understanding
of solutions of Schrodinger s equation is the world s largest and
to the author s knowledge, virtually only library of line drawings
of exclusive orbital models of chemical species electron density
profiles.
By focussing attention on fundamental physical principles and by
avoiding use of atomic orbitals and, thereby, mathematical
complexities associated with Schrodinger s equation (the only
source of atomic orbitals), the book s essays provide a
scientifically sound, student-friendly introduction to modern
valence theory.
Repetition of fundamental ideas, here and there, is intended to
make individual essays understandable and interesting, each by
itself, so that readers may examine them in any order, in leisurely
walks, so to speak, in the big garden that is valence theory,
picking bouquets to their liking. "
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