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Two submicroscopic particles bound together as a system are subject to (a) movement of their center of mass, (b) unidirectional and back-and-forth rotation about this center, and (c) oscillation in the interparticle distance, also about the center of mass. The first two movements have been considered in Chapters 1 and 2; but the third motion is generally different from and more complicated than the simple harmonic motion treated in Chapter 3.
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Duffey, G.H. (1984). Radial Motion in a Coulombic Field. In: A Development of Quantum Mechanics. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5201-0_4
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