Chem 531

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

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