THE MAXIMUM LIMIT OF ROTATIONAL ENERGY TRANSFER IN MOLECULAR COLLISIONS AND THE HARD ELLIPSOID POTENTIAL MODEL |
| N.K. Dabkara Department of Physics, Government Post Graduate College Neemuch M.P., 458441, India |
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| Received: April 20, 2001 |
| The maximum limit of rotational energy transfer was investigated over a wide range of collision energy, reduced mass of the system, potential functions, and potential parameters for the N2--Ne system. The classical limit of maximum rotational energy transfer, (Δ E)max, was reviewed for a hard ellipsoid potential model. It was found that (ΔE)max predicted by the hard ellipsoid model is comparable to a well-known parameter |ΔE|* given by the power-gap law. The numerical equivalence of |ΔE|* with (ΔE)max suggests that the value of (ΔE)max given by hard ellipsoid potential model can be used as one parameter |ΔE|* of the power-gap law. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.100.41 PACS numbers: 34.50.Ez, 34.50.--s |