5.61 | Fall 2007 | Undergraduate

Physical Chemistry

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L1 Historical development (PDF)
L2 The atom of Niels Bohr (PDF)
L3 Wave nature, de Broglie wavelength (PDF)
L4 Uncertainty principle (PDF)
L5 Stationary waves, Schrödinger equation (PDF)
L6 Particle in a box (PDF)
L7 Probabilities, expectation values, operators I (PDF)
L8 Probabilities, expectation values, operators II (PDF)
L9 Postulates of quantum mechanics I (PDF)
L10 Postulates of quantum mechanics II (PDF)
L11 Classic harmonic oscillator (PDF)
L12 Quantum harmonic oscillator

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Note supplement 1 (PDF - 1.1 MB)

Note supplement 2 (PDF)

L13 Tunneling
L14 Three dimensional systems
L15 Rigid rotor
L16 Spherical harmonics (PDF)
L17 Angular momenta (PDF)
L18 Hydrogen atom I (PDF)
L19 Hydrogen atom II (PDF)
L20 Variation principle (PDF)
L21 Helium atom (PDF - 1.3 MB)
L22 Hartree-Fock, SCF
L23 Electron spin (PDF)
L24 Pauli principle (PDF)
L25 Born-Oppenheimer approximation (PDF)
L26 Molecular orbital theory, H2+ (PDF)
L27 LCAO-MO theory (PDF)
L28 Qualitative molecular orbital theory (PDF)
L29 Modern electronic structure theory
L30 Interaction of light with matter (PDF)
L31 Vibrational spectra (PDF)
L32 NMR spectroscopy I (PDF)
L33 NMR spectroscopy II
L34 Perturbation theory (PDF)
L35 Vibrational anharmonicity (PDF)
L36 Crystal field states (PDF)

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