Welcome to the Chem3060 web
Contact Info
Prof. Thanh N. Truong
Office: INSCC 310
Email:
Thanh.Truong@utah.edu
phone: 581-4301
TA Office Hours: 2-3pm in 1316 HEB Tuesdays and Thursdays
Textbook
Physical Chemistry by Engel & Reid (Starting from Chaper 12)
The same material is presented in the
Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy textbook by Engel (Starting Chaper 1)
Since most students have the Physical Chemistry textbook, so I will refer to the materials from there.
Syllabus and others:
Previous Exams
Fall93:
Chem316_Midterm1_Fall93.pdf ,
Chem316_Midterm2_Fall93.pdf ,
Chem316_Midterm3_Fall93.pdf ,
Chem316__Final_Fall93.pdf
Fall05:
Chem3030_Midterm1_Spr05.pdf ,
Chem3060_mid-term2__2005.pdf ,
Chem3060_2005-final-exam.pdf
Fall07:
First_Exam_Answer_Key.pdf ,
Chem3090-Keys.pdf ,
Chem_3060_Fall_2007_finalexamkey.pdf
Lecture Notes
Week 7 :
Elizabeth_Black_Oct_22.pdf ,
KaitlynLe_10.22_notes.pdf
Week 5: Lecture09.pdf
Hydrogen Atom
Viewing atomic orbitals
Week 4:
Lecture06.pdf ,
Lecture07.pdf ,
Lecture08.pdf
Particle on a Sphere
Rigid Rotor ;
Rotational Spectra ;
Nice graphics!
Harmonic Oscillator ;
Classical versus Quantum Mechanics
The Particle in a Box - A QM Model for Translation
Week 3: Read Chapters 14 and 17, starting Chapter 15
The Quantum Mechanical Postulates
The Particle in a Box - A QM Model for Translation
Week 2: Read Chapter 13
The Schrödinger Equation
Operators
Week 1 : Chapter 12 (Physical Chemistry Textbook), same as Chapter 1 (Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy textbook)
Overview of Classical Mechanics
Failures of Classical Mechanics
Homework Assignments
Week 12: (Due date: Nov. 24)
Assignment:Chapter 24: Problems: 5, 6, 8,9, 10,11,12
Week 11: (Due date: Nov. 14)
Assignment: Chapter 22: 4, 5, 6, 11 Chapter 23: Questions: 4, 10, 11 Problems: 1, 2,
HW-10-solution-F08.pdf
Week 10: (due date: Nov. 7)
Recommendation: Chaper 21: Problems 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 29
Assignment: Chapeter 21: Problems 15, 19, 23, 25
HW-9-solution-F08.pdf :
Week 9: (Due date: Friday, Oct. 31)
Recommendation: Chaper 21:
Assignment: Chapeter 21: Questions: 4 and 5
HW-8-solution-F08.pdf :
Week 8: (Due date: Friday, Oct. 24)
Recommendation: Chapter 21: Problems 3, 6, 8
Assignment: Questions on concepts: 1, 7, 9 Problems: 2, 9, 11
HW-7-solution-F08.pdf
Week 6: (Due date: Monday, Oct. 10)
Recommendation: Chapter 19: 1, 3, 8, 14 Chapter 20: 8, 12, 19, 22
Assignment: Chapter 19: 4, 15, 18 Chapter 20: 2, 6, 11, 15, 18
HW-6-solution-F08.pdf :
Week 5: (Due date: Friday, Oct. 3)
Recommendation: Chapter 18: Problems: 1, 3, 7, 13, 17, 24
Assignment: Problems: 4, 6, 9, 10, 18, 23, 27,
Additional_problem_for_HW5.pdf
HW5-solutions-F08.pdf :
Week 4: (Due date: Friday, Sept. 26st)
Recommendation: Chapter 15: Problems: 2, 8, 12, 15
Assignment: Chapter 15: Problems: 3, 5, 9, 13, 16, 18, and
1. Plot the transmission probability for a particle tunneling through a barrier as functions of the mass, barrier width, and barrier height for a given energy (let assume E = 1 unit of energy)
HW4-solutions-F08.pdf
Week 3: (Due date: Friday, Sept. 19th)
Recommendation: Chapter 17: Problems: 2, 4, 7, 16
Assignment: Chapter 17: Problems: 5, 8, 10, 15, and the following problems:
1. Determine whether the following functions are aceptable or not as state functions over the internals. If not give the reason.
1/x (0, )
(0, )
(0, )
( , )
2. In previous chapter, we learned that if
is an eigenfunction of the time-independent Schrodinger equation, then
Show that if
and
are eigenfunctions of the time-independent Schrodinger equation, then the state
satisfy the time-dependent Schrodinger equation.
HW3-solutions-F08.pdf :
Week 2: (Due date: Friday, Sept. 12th)
Recommendation: Chapter 13 of the Physical Chemistry textbook: Problems: 7, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22
Assignment: Problems #: 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24
HW2-solutions-F08.pdf :
Week 1 : (Due date: Friday, Sept. 12)
Recommendation: Chaper 12 of the Physical Chemistry textbook: Problems #: 2, 4, 6, 13, 21
Assignments: Problems #: 1, 7, 11, 17, 20, and 23
HW1-solutions-F08.pdf :