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Oct 2
Week_1 Quantum Theory: Introduction and Principles
Black body radiation, Planck’s hypothesis (quantization of energy), wave-particle duality, photon, photoelectric effect, photoelectron spectroscopy, Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, wave character of particles, de Broglie wavelength
Oct 9
Week_2 Wavefunction, operators, probability density, Schrödinger equation(SE) (time-dependent and time-independent forms of SE )
Quantum Theory: Techniques and Applications: Translational motion: Particle in a 1-D Box
Oct 16
Week_3 The particle in a (one, two, and three dimensional) box model, normalization, degeneracy, tunneling, the concept of average value
Oct 23
Week_4 Vibrational Motion: Harmonic oscillator model, quantum mechanical solution, Hermite polynomials, IR frequencies, Virial theorem,
Oct 30 MIDTERM 1
Nov 6
Week_6 Rotational Motion: Rotation of a particle in 2D, quantization of rotation, angular momentum, Rotation in 3D, rigid rotor model, microwave frequencies, Boltzmann Distribution law, Anharmonic Oscillator.
Nov 13
Week_7 Rotational and Vibrational Spectra of Diatomic Molecules
Vibration-Rotation Energies, Transitions with IR photons.
Nov 20
Week_8
Nov 27
Week_9 Atomic Structure and Atomic Spectra:
Electronic structure, Hydrogen atom and H-like ions, solution of Schrödinger equation, atomic orbitals and their energies, quantum numbers, shells, subshells, and radial distribution functions.
Dec 4 MIDTERM 2
Dec 11
Week_11 Many-electron Atoms
Electronic structure of many-electron atoms, Variation Principle, Helium atom, spin-orbital, Slater determinant, Pauli principle, penetration and shielding, the building-up principle, Hund’s rule
Dec 18
Week_12 Molecular Structure
Bohr Oppenheimer Approximation, Molecular orbital theory, Hydrogen molecule-ion, Hydrogen molecule, wavefunction
Dec 25
Week_13 Diatomic Molecules
The electronic structure of diatomic molecules
Jan 8
Week_14 Hückel Molecular Orbital Theory
Applications in conjugated organic molecules |