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From: "Dr. Peter Burger" <chburger@aci.unizh.ch>
To: CHEMISTRY@ccl.net
Subject: harmonic oscillator for triatomic system
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Dear CCLers,

embarassing but I dare nevertheless to ask.

I am looking for an expression of the angle bending term using the
harmonic oscillator approximation for a triatomic system B-A-C in a form
as for the bond stretch term in a diatomic system, i.e. nu = 1/2PI
sqrt(k/mu). In particular, what form does the reduced mass term 
mu have in the triatomic system?

Best regards,

Peter