320 chem

The course will introduce quantum mechanics as applied to chemistry. This course covers the following topics:

• Particle Nature of Radiation: The Origin of Quantum Theory: (Blackbody Radiation: Planck’s Quantum Hypothesis, The Photoelectric Effect, and Dual Nature of Radiation).
• Atoms and the Bohr Model: (Atomic Spectra and Bohr Model of Hydrogenic Atoms).
• Wave Nature of Matter and the Need for a Wave Function: De Broglie’s Hypothesis, The Need for a Wave Function and Born’s Interpretation of the Wave Function.
• Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
• Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
• Analytically Soluble Problems:
  
  • The Particle in a Box 
  • The Harmonic Oscillator
  • The Rigid Rotor
  • The Hydrogen Atom

Electronic Angular momentum