• In mathematics, the orbit method (also known as the Kirillov theory, the method of coadjoint orbits and by a few similar names) establishes a correspondence...
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  • of the orbitals involved. Molecular orbital diagrams provide simple qualitative LCAO treatment. The Hückel method, the extended Hückel method and the...
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  • In chemistry, frontier molecular orbital theory is an application of molecular orbital theory describing HOMO–LUMO interactions. In 1952, Kenichi Fukui...
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  • The Hückel method or Hückel molecular orbital theory, proposed by Erich Hückel in 1930, is a simple method for calculating molecular orbitals as linear...
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    velocity method is that eccentricity of the planet's orbit can be measured directly. One of the main disadvantages of the radial-velocity method is that...
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    In quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital (/ˈɔːrbɪtəl/ ) is a function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. This function...
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  • orbitals (STOs) or Slater-type functions (STFs) are functions used as atomic orbitals in the linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method...
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    topological groups and Lie groups. In particular he introduced the orbit method into representation theory. He is an emeritus professor at the University...
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  • In orbital mechanics (a subfield of celestial mechanics), Gauss's method is used for preliminary orbit determination from at least three observations...
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    In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star...
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  • bosons) of N spin-orbitals. By invoking the variational method, one can derive a set of N-coupled equations for the N spin orbitals. A solution of these...
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    a method for finding the orbit of a body following a parabolic path from three observations. This was used by Edmund Halley to establish the orbits of...
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    A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO), is a circular geosynchronous orbit 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude...
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  • , the Kirillov orbit method gives a heuristic method in representation theory. It connects the Fourier transforms of coadjoint orbits, which lie in the...
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  • The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has been referred to while doing science since at least the 17th century. Historically...
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    discovered. The basic methods were discovered in the 17th century and have been continuously refined. Observations are the raw data fed into orbit determination...
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    Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body. It is expressed as the angle between a reference plane and the orbital...
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    modeling an orbit with computers. Cowell's formulation (so named for Philip H. Cowell, who, with A.C.D. Cromellin, used a similar method to predict the...
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    molecular orbitals can be obtained from the "Linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method" ansatz. Here, the molecular orbitals are expressed...
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  • remainder method (voting systems) Level-set method Linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method (molecular orbitals) Method of characteristics...
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  • located at each atomic site. The method is closely related to the LCAO method (linear combination of atomic orbitals method) used in chemistry. Tight-binding...
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  • motivations of the theory was to understand and generalize Kirillov's orbit method in representation theory. The geometric quantization procedure falls...
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    A heliocentric orbit (also called circumsolar orbit) is an orbit around the barycenter of the Solar System, which is usually located within or very near...
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  • perturbation methods are often used to model the orbit in order to achieve better accuracy. The study of orbital motion and mathematical modeling of orbits began...
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  • Coupled cluster (category Electronic structure methods)
    Coupled cluster essentially takes the basic Hartree–Fock molecular orbital method and constructs multi-electron wavefunctions using the exponential cluster...
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    transfer orbit (GTO) or geosynchronous transfer orbit is a highly elliptical type of geocentric orbit, usually with a perigee as low as low Earth orbit (LEO)...
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    graveyard orbit, also called a junk orbit or disposal orbit, is an orbit that lies away from common operational orbits. One significant graveyard orbit is a...
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  • In chemistry, molecular orbital theory (MO theory or MOT) is a method for describing the electronic structure of molecules using quantum mechanics. It...
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  • The fragment molecular orbital method (FMO) is a computational method that can be used to calculate very large molecular systems with thousands of atoms...
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    Air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO) is the method of launching smaller rockets at altitude from a heavier conventional horizontal-takeoff aircraft, to carry satellites...
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