Physical Chemistry

Lecture Notes

The notes for lectures 28 and 29 courtesy of Prof. Troy Van Voorhis. Used with permission. 

LEC #	Lecture Notes
1	Quantum Mechanics—Historical Background, Photoelectric Effect, Compton Scattering (PDF)
2	Wave Nature of the Electron and the Internal Structure of an Atom (PDF) Lecture 2 Supplement: Geiger–Marsden Revisited (PDF)
3	Two-Slit Experiment, Quantum Weirdness (PDF)
4	The Classical Wave Equation and Separation of Variables (PDF)
5	Begin Quantum Mechanics: Free Particle and Particle in a 1D Box (PDF)
6	3-D Box and Separation of Variables (PDF)
7	Classical Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator (PDF)
8	Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator (PDF)
9	Harmonic Oscillator: Creation and Annihilation Operators (PDF)
10	The Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation (PDF)
11	Wavepacket Dynamics for Harmonic Oscillator and PIB (PDF) Lecture 11 Supplement: Nonstationary States of Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator (PDF)
12	Looking Backward Before First Hour Exam: Postulate (PDF)
13–14	From H{{< sub “ij” >}} Integrals to H Matrices (PDF)
15	Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory I (PDF)
16	Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory II: Harmonic Oscillators Using a,a{{< sup “†” >}} (PDF) Lecture 16 Supplement: Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory III (PDF)
17	Rigid Rotor I (PDF)
18	Rigid Rotor II (PDF)
19	Spectroscopy: Probing Molecules with Light (PDF)  Lecture 19 Supplement: Perturbation Theory: Matrix Notation, Applications to Dynamics (PDF)
20	Hydrogen Atom I (PDF)
21	Hydrogen Atom II (PDF)
22	Helium Atom (PDF)
23	Many–Electron Atoms (PDF) Lecture 23 Supplement: Slater Determinantal Matrix Elements (PDF)
24	Molecular Orbital Theory, Matrix Mechanics and Variational Principle (PDF)  Lecture 24 Supplement: General Eigenvalue Problem for LCAO-MO Expressed in Matrix Notation (PDF)
25	Molecular Orbital Theory of Diatomic Molecules (PDF)
26	Qualitative MolecularOrbital Theory: Hückel Theory (PDF)
27	Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory III (PDF)
28–29	Modern Electronic Structure Theory: Basis Sets (PDF) Modern Electronic Structure (PDF) Modern Electronic Structure Theory: Electron Correlation (PDF)
30–31	Electronic Spectroscopy. Franck-Condon (PDF)
32	Adiabatic↔Diabatic: Zewail (PDF) Lecture 32 Supplement: Zewail Wavepacket Experiment (PDF - 1MB)
33	Intermolecular Interactions (PDF)
34	Electronic Spectroscopy and Photochemistry (PDF - 1MB)
35	Delta-functions, Eigenfunctions of X, and Discrete Variable Representation (PDF)
36	Time Dependence of Two-Level Systems: Density Matrix, Rotating Wave Approximation (PDF)