Introduction to Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy (In progress)

Thanh N. Truong

Department of Chemistry, University of Utah

These lecture notes can be used with any undergraduate physical chemistry textbook.  

Chapter 0:  Overview of Classical Mechanics

Chapter 1:  Failures of Classical Mechanics

Chapter 2:  The Schrödinger Equation

Chapter 3:  Operators

Chapter 4:  The Quantum Mechanical Postulates

Chapter 5:  The Particle in a Box - A QM Model for Translation

Chapter 6:  The Harmonic Oscillator - A QM Model for Vibration

Chapter 7:  The Particle on a Ring and on a Sphere -- A QM Model for Rotation in 2D and 3D

Chapter 8:  The Hydrogen Atom

Chapter 9:  Many-electron Atoms

Chapter 10:  Chemical Bonding in Diatomic Molecules

Chapter 11:  The Vibrational and Rotational Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules

Chapter 12:  Electronic Structures of Polyatomic Molecules

Chapter 13:  Electronic Spectroscopy

Chapter 14:  Computational Chemistry

Chapter 15:  Molecular Symmetry  and its Applications

-- ThanhTruong - 23 Jun 2007