CH3214

Course contents, grading, etc.

See this link. 

Office hours

Veena Vinod (Teaching Assistant), Mondays 6:30 to 7:30 PM in Room C303

Anirban Hazra (Instructor), Thursdays 6:00 to 7:00 PM in Room C210

Quiz dates

• Jan 27 (Tue, 4 PM)

• Feb 17 (Tue, 4 PM)

• Mar 24 (Tue, 4 PM)

• Apr 14 (Tue, 4 PM)

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.  

Problem sets

1. Postulates 1 and 2

2. Postulates 2, 3 and 4

3. Postulate 5 and particle in a box

4. Classical versus quantum mechanics. Understanding the role of symmetry in chemistry using the particle in a box

5. Harmonic oscillator

6. Molecular vibration. Angular momentum

7. Orbital angular momentum. Molecular rotation. Uncertainty principle