| Schedule for Chem 430, Fall 2004 | ||||||
| Week | Class | Date | Topic | HW/Exams | Due | Readings |
| 1 | 1 | Tue Aug 24 | Course Intro. What is Quantum Chemistry? Origins of QM Black Body Radiation |
HW1 Math dignostic |
Tue Aug. 31 | AF Ch.0  Lecture notes Math handout 1 Math handout 2 |
| 2 | Thu Aug 26 | Operators; Commutators Postulates of QM |
AF 1.0-1.12 Lecture notes |
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| 2 | 3 | Tue Aug 31 | Postulates of QM Hermitian operators |
HW2 HW1 Solution |
Tue Sep 7 | AF 1.13-1.23 |
| 4 | Thu Sep 2 | Complementarity Bracket notation acceptable psi's |
AF 2.1-2.6 Lecture notes |
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| 3 | 5 | Tue Sep 7 | Matrix formulation General Properties, quantization |
HW3 HW2 Solution |
Tue Sep 14 | AF 2.8-2.10 Lecture notes PRL 1983 paper |
| 6 | Thu Sep 9 | Free particle, barrier penetration
Tunneling |
AF 2.12-2.18 | |||
| 4 | 7 | Tue Sep 14 | harmonic oscillator (Dirac's operator method) |
HW4 HW3 Solution |
Tue Sep 21 | AF 2.15-2.18 Lecture notes |
| 8 | Thu Sep 16 | harmonic oscillator (cont'd) |
Problems for Problem Session Solution to the problems |
AF 2.15-2.18 | ||
| 5 | 9 | Tue Sep 21 | Perturbation theory |
NO HOMEWORK Please look at last year first midterm exam (download pdf) |
Problem session
09/21/04 5pm Anderson Biology #306 |
AF 6.1-6.8 |
| 10 | Thu Sep 23 |
Perturbation theory Infinite well with a little "hump": perturbative solution and exact solution |
HW4 Solution | AF 6.1-6.8 | ||
| 6 | 11 | Tue Sep 28 | Perturbation theory Applications |
EXAM 1 | Tue Oct 5 | AF 6.1-6.8 |
| 12 | Tue Sep 30 |
Periodic potential Kronig-Penney Hamiltonian Energy Bands and Energy Gaps Perturbative approach: the nearly free electron model |
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| 7 | 13 | Tue Oct 5 |
Rotational motion Particle on a ring Angular Momentum Spherical Harmonics |
Thu Oct 14 | AF 3.1-3.8 AF Further Info 8-9 (pp 496-498) Lecture notes | |
| 14 | Thu Oct 7 |
Spherical coordinates Central potential | AF 4.1-4.7 | |||
| 8 | MIDTERM RECESS | |||||
| 15 | Thu Oct 14 |
Angular Momentum Ladder Operators for the angular momentum |
HW5 | Thu Oct 21 | AF 4.1-4.7 | |
| 9 | 16 | Tue Oct 19 |
Angular Momentum Ladder Operators for the angular momentum Spin Coupling of angular momenta |
Supersymmetry and QM Phys. Rep. 251 (1995) 267-385 (pdf file) |
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| 17 | Thu Oct 21 |
Hydrogen atom Ladder operator for the radial problem |
HW6 Problem session 10/21/04 5pm Anderson Biology #306 |
Thu Oct 28 | AF 3.9-3.14 | |
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Tue Oct 26 | Variation Theorem, Rayleigh-Ritz We're about 1 lecture behind at this point. |
Problem session 10/26/04 SPAC106 5PM
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AF 4.8-4.12 |
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| 19 | Thu Oct 28 | Variation Theorem, Rayleigh-Ritz WKB, Rydberg-Klein-Rees |
EXAM 2 |
Thu Nov 4 Tue Nov 9 |
AF 6.9-6.11 |
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| 11 | 20 | Tue Nov 2 | WKB, Rydberg-Klein-Rees Schedule adjusted to reflect actual lecture topics starting with L20 |
AF Chapter 7 |
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| 21 | Thu Nov 4 | Helium atom, spin Many-electron atoms Atomic term symbol |
EXAM 2 DUE
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| 12 | 22 | Tue Nov 9 | Born-Oppenheimer approximation |
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Tues Nov 16 |  Born-Oppenheimer |
| 23 | Thu Nov 11 | Electronic structure of H2+ and H2 |
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| 13 | 24 | Tue Nov 16 | Group theory | EXAM 3 |
Tue Nov 23 | Notes on Group
Theory |
| 25 | Thu Nov 18 | Group theory |
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| 14 | 26 | Tue Nov 23 | Group theory | EXAM 3 DUE |
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| THANKSGIVING RECESS | ||||||
| 15 | 27 | Tue Nov 30 | Group theory | |||
| 28 | Thu Dec 2 | Group theory | Wed Dec 15 (5pm) | |||