Sunday, October 13, 2019

optics - Why can a solution show optical rotation?


Why can a solution show optical rotation? A solution, as a liquid, is rotationally isotropic, right? So, even if the molecules are chiral, because of the random orientation of the molecules, shouldn't the effect cancel out?




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

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