The mass to use in the expression for the vibration frequency of a diatomic molecule is the effective mass μ =mAmB/(mA+mB), where mA and mB are the masses of the individual atoms. The following data on the infrared absorption wave numbers (in cm-1) of molecules is taken from Spectra of diatomic molecules, G. Herzberg, van No strand (1950):
H35Cl H81Br HI CO NO
2990 2650 2310 2170 1904
Determine the force constants of the bonds and arrange them in order of increasing the stiffness.