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Lecture Notes

Keith Nelson was the lecturer for Lec #1 and 19-36, and Robert Griffin was the lecturer for Lec #2-18 and 36.

LEC # TOPICS NOTES
1 Historical Development (PDF)
2 Rutherford Model, H Emission Spectrum (PDF)
3 Rydberg Formula, Photoelectric Effect (PDF)
4 The Atom of Niels Bohr (PDF)
5 Wave Nature, de Broglie Wavelength (PDF)
6 Uncertainty Principle (PDF)
7 Schrödinger Equation, Stationary Waves (PDF)
8 Particle in a Box (PDF)
9 Probabilities, Expectation Values, Operators I (PDF)
10 Probabilities, Expectation Values, Operators II (PDF)
11 Postulates of Quantum Mechanics I (PDF)
12 Postulates of Quantum Mechanics II (PDF)
13 Classical Harmonic Oscillator
14 Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
15 Tunneling
16 Three Dimensional Systems (PDF)
17 Rigid Rotor (PDF)
18 Spherical Harmonics
19 Angular Momenta
20 Hydrogen Atom I (PDF 1)

(PDF 2)
21 Hydrogen Atom II
22 Variational Principle, Perturbation Theory (PDF)
23 Helium Atom (PDF)
24 Hartree-Fock, Self-Consistent Field
25 Electron Spin (PDF)
26 Pauli Principle (PDF)
27 Many Electron Atoms (PDF)
28 Born-Oppenheimer Approximations (PDF)
29 Valence Bond Theory (PDF)
30 Molecular Orbital Theory, H2+ (PDF)
31 Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules (PDF)
32 Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules (cont.)
33 Building Molecules One Electron at a Time (PDF)
34 Heteronuclear Diatomic Molecules (PDF)
35 Polyatomics, Hybrids

Huckel MO Solution
(PDF)

(PDF)
36 Vibration-rotation Spectra (PDF)