Physical Chemistry

Lecture Notes

SES #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES
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	(PDF - 2.1 MB) 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)