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Prof. Robert Field

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Chemistry

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Fall 2017

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5.61 F17 Lecture #11: Wavepacket Dynamics for Harmonic Oscillator and PIB

5.61 F17 Lecture 1: Quantum Mechanics--Historical Background, Photoelectric Effect, Compton Scattering

5.61 F17 Lecture 10: The Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation

5.61 F17 Lecture 11 Supplement: Nonstationary States of Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator

5.61 F17 Lecture 12: Looking Backward Before First Hour Exam: Postulate

5.61 F17 Lecture 13 and Lecture 14: From Hij Integrals to H Matrices

5.61 F17 Lecture 15: Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory I

5.61 F17 Lecture 16 Supplement: Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory III

5.61 F17 Lecture 16: Nondegenerate Perturbation Theory II: Harmonic Oscillators using a,a†

5.61 F17 Lecture 17: Rigid Rotor I

5.61 F17 Lecture 18: Rigid Rotor II

5.61 F17 Lecture 19 Supplement: Perturbation Theory: Matrix Notation, Applications to Dynamics

5.61 F17 Lecture 19: Spectroscopy: Probing Molecules with Light

5.61 F17 Lecture 2 Supplement: Geiger-Marsden Revisted

5.61 F17 Lecture 2: Wave Nature of the Electron and the Internal Structure of an Atom

5.61 F17 Lecture 20: Hydrogen Atom I

5.61 F17 Lecture 21: Hydrogen Atom II

5.61 F17 Lecture 22: Helium Atom

5.61 F17 Lecture 24 Supplement: General Eigenvalue Problem for LCAO-MO Expressed in Matrix Notation

5.61 F17 Lecture 24: Molecular Orbital Theory, Matrix Mechanics and Variational Principle

5.61 F17 Lecture 25: Molecular Orbital Theory of Diatomic Molecules II

5.61 F17 Lecture 26: Qualitative Molecular Orbital Theory: Huckel Theory

5.61 F17 Lecture 27: Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory III

5.61 F17 Lecture 28 and 29: Modern Electronic Stucture Guided Notes

5.61 F17 Lecture 28: Modern Electronic Structure Theory: Basis Sets

5.61 F17 Lecture 29: Modern Electronic Structure Theory: Electron Correlation

5.61 F17 Lecture 3: Two-Slit Experiment, Quantum Weirdness

5.61 F17 Lecture 32: Adiabatic - Diabatic: Zewail

5.61 F17 Lecture 34: Electronic Spectroscopy and Photochemistry

5.61 F17 Lecture 35: Delta-functions, Eigenfunctions of X, and Discrete Variable Representation

5.61 F17 Lecture 36: Time Dependence of Two-Level Systems: Density Matrix, Rotating Wave Approximation

5.61 F17 Lecture 5: Begin Quantum Mechanics: Free Particle and Particle in a 1D Box

5.61 F17 Lecture 6: 3-D Box and Separation of Variables

5.61 F17 Lecture 7: Classical Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator

5.61 F17 Lecture 8: Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator

5.61 F17 Lecture 9: Harmonic Oscillator: Creation and Annihilation Operators

5.61 F17: Lecture 4: The Classical Wave Equation and Separation of Variables

5.61_F17 Lecture 23 Supplement: Slater Determinantal Matrix Elements

5.61_F17 Lecture 23: Many-Electron Atoms

5.61_F17 Lecture 30 and Lecture 31: Electronic Spectroscopy. Franck-Condon.

5.61_F17 Lecture 32 Supplement: Zewail Wavepacket Experiment

5.61_F17 Lecture 33: Intermolecular Interactions

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Robert Field

Departments

Chemistry

As Taught In

Fall 2017

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Science
- Chemistry
  - Physical Chemistry

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Lecture Videos

Lecture Notes

Problem Sets

Problem Set Solutions

Exams

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