Lecture Description
Recorded on February 10, 2014.
Index of Topics:
0:41 Atomic Spectroscopy
9:08 Emission Spectra
10:59 Practice Problem 18
21:41 Coupling Schemes
26:17 LS Coupling
29:42 Adding Angular Momenta
31:47 Vector Model For Coupling
38:40 Symmetry Considerations
41:48 LS Coupling
44:28 Term Symbols
46:10 Sodium Emission
47:23 Terms
50:32 Selection Rules
Course Index
- Introduction
- Particles, Waves, the Uncertainty Principle and Postulates
- More Postulates, Superposition, Operators and Measurement
- Complementarity, Quantum Encryption, Schrodinger Equation
- Model 1D Quantum Systems - "The Particle In a Box"
- Quantum Mechanical Tunneling
- Tunneling Microscopy and Vibrations
- More on Vibrations and Approximation Techniques
- Potentials + Quantization in Two Spatial Dimensions
- Particles on Rings and Spheres... A Prelude to Atoms
- Particle on a Sphere, Angular Momentum
- Spin, The Vector Model and Hydrogen Atoms
- Hydrogen Atoms: Radial Functions & Solutions
- Atomic Spectroscopy Selection Rules, Coupling, and Terms
- Hydrogen Wavefunctions, Quantum Numbers, Term Symbols
- Energy Level Diagrams, Spin-Orbit Coupling, Pauli Principle
- Approximation Methods: Variational Principle, Atomic Units
- The Hydride Ion (Continued): Two-Electron Systems
- The Hydride Ion (Try #3!) The Orbital Philosophy
- Hartree-Fock Calculations, Spin, and Slater Determinants
- Bigger Atoms, Hund's Rules and the Aufbau Principle
- The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation and H2+
- LCAO-MO Approximation Applied to H2+
- Molecular Orbital: The Virial Theorem in Action
- Optimizing H2+ Molecular Orbital, H2, & Config Interaction
- Qualitative MO Theory
- CH4 Molecular Orbitals and Delocalized Bonding
- What We've Covered: Course Summary
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to quantum mechanics and principles of quantum chemistry with applications to nuclear motions and the electronic structure of the hydrogen atom. It also examines the Schrödinger equation and study how it describes the behavior of very light particles, the quantum description of rotating and vibrating molecules is compared to the classical description, and the quantum description of the electronic structure of atoms is studied.