Advanced Physical Chemistry I
Topics and Approximate Schedule
Chapter 1 Basics of QM and solvable
problems two weeks Chapter 2 Approximation
methods one week Chapter 3 (& Chapter
13) Angular momentum,
vibration/rotation of diatomics and polyatomic molecules
(includes Chapter 13) three weeks MIDTERM I October
13, 2000 Chapter 4 Atomic and molecular
orbitals and symmetry two weeks Chapter 5 Electronic configurations of
atoms and molecules two weeks Chapter 5 Mean field
theories--Electronic and vibrational one week MIDTERM II November
10 , 2000 Chapter 14 Time-dependent interactions,
wave packets and perturbation theory two weeks Chapter 16 Scattering theory two weeks