The 3rd edition of this textbook offers clear explanations of optical spectroscopic phenomena and shows how spectroscopic techniques are used in modern chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics.Topics included are:electronic and vibrational absorptionfluorescencesymmetry operations and normal-mode calculationselectron transfer from excited moleculesenergy transferexciton interactionselectronic and vibrational circular dichroismcoherence and dephasingultrafast pump-probe and photon-echo spectroscopysingle-molecule and fluorescence-correlation spectroscopyRaman...