Introduction to Quantum Chemistry U760

Fall 1999

• Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00 P.M. - 3:20 P.M.
  
• 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6494
  
• Dr. Themis Lazaridis
  • Instructor
  • City College, Chemistry,
  • (212) 650-8364
  • E-mail:themis@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
    
• Course web page: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~themis/u760.html
• Textbook
  • Quantum Chemistry, 5th Ed.
    by Ira N. Levine, Prentice-Hall, 2000
    Chapters 1-11 and parts of 13 and 15
• Further reading
  • Atoms and Molecules
    by M. Karplus, R.N. Porter, Benjamin, New York, 1970
    
  • Modern Quantum Chemistry
    by A. Szabo, N.S. Ostlund, Dover, New York, 1996
    
  
  

Syllabus

 
	9/7: Chapter 1, The Schrodinger Equation
	9/9:  Chapter 2, Particle in a Box
	9/14:  Chapter 3, Operators
	9/16:        	"
	9/23: Chapter 4, The harmonic oscillator
	9/28:		"
	9/30: Chapter 5, Angular Momentum
	10/5:		"
	10/7: Chapter 6, The hydrogen atom
	10/12: 1st MIDTERM EXAM (chapters 1-5)
	10/14: Chapter 6, cont	
	10/19:          "
	10/21: --
	10/26: Chapter 7, Theorems of Q. Mechanics
	10/28:		"
2-4pm	11/2:  End Chapter 7 and start Chapter 8, The variation method
2-4pm	11/4:  End Chapter 8
2-4pm	11/9:  Chapter 9, Perturbation theory
2-4pm	11/11:		"
2-4pm	11/16: Chapter 10, Electron Spin and the Pauli Principle
2-4pm	11/18: 2nd MIDTERM EXAM (chapters 1-9)
2-4pm	11/23: Chapter 10, cont
	11/30: Chapter 11, Many-electron atoms
	12/2:           "
	12/7: 		"
	12/9:  Chapters 13 & 15, parts
	12/14  Review & questions
	12/16  Final Exam