CH3214

Course contents, grading and TA office hours

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Quiz dates

• Jan 22 (Wed, 11 AM)

• Feb 12 (Wed, 11 AM)

• Mar 21 (Fri, 9 AM)

• Apr 11 (Fri. 9 AM)

All the quizzes will happen in LHC 101. 

Notes

Reduction of certain two-body problems to two one-body problems (extract from Quantum Chemistry by Levine). In the context of our course, this reduction is useful for mapping the vibration of a diatomic molecule to a simple harmonic oscillator, the rigid rotor to a particle on a sphere, and the hydrogen atom to the rotation of a particle around a fixed point.  

App to visualize the hydrogen atom orbitals

Problem sets

1. Solve all the 7 problems on complex numbers in Section 1.6 of the course notes of Mathematics for Quantum Physics. Due by Jan 8, 2025.

2. Postulates 1 to 4. Due by Jan 15, 2025. 

3. Postulate 5, Particle in a 1-D box, Symmetry and Quantum Mechanics. Due by Jan 22, 2025

4. Classical versus Quantum Mechanics, Simple Harmonic Oscillator Derivation. Due by Jan 29, 2025

5. Harmonic Oscillator. Due by Feb 6, 2025 

6. Angular momentum, Rigid rotor. Due by Feb 12, 2025

7. Hydrogen atom. Due by Mar 12, 2025

8. Atoms, atomic units, perturbation theory. Due by Mar 19, 2025

9. Variational method. Due by Apr 2, 2025

10. Spin-adapted two-electron wave functions. Due by Apr 4, 2025

11. Valence-bond theory for H2. Due by Apr 10, 2025

12. Molecular orbital theory. Due by Apr 23, 2025