The Morse Oscillator

Title Page

Background Information

Failure of the Harmonic Oscillator

The Morse Potential

The Morse Hamiltonian

The Morse Wavefunction

What is the Morse Oscillator?

What the Morse Oscillator Means

Importance of the Morse Oscillator

Applications to Spectroscopy

Acknowledgements

Author: Michael Unruh

Hometown: Alexandria, MN

Majors: Biology & Chemistry

Home Page: Mike's Awesome Homepage

Comments: This webpage describes the Morse oscillator model of the vibrational wavefunction in diatomic molecules.  It was written to accompany a poster presentation for Chemistry 351.