CHEMISTRY 460/562

Physical Chemistry III/Advanced Quantum Chemistry

 

C. Baumann (http://academic.scranton.edu/faculty/cab302)                                        Spring 2010

941-6389

cab302@scranton.edu                                                                                                    Office: Loyola 109

 

Text: Molecular Quantum Mechanics, P.W. Atkins and R.S. Friedman, Fourth ed., Oxford, 1997.

 

This course provides the student an advanced view of quantum chemistry. All students enrolled should have had at least two semesters of undergraduate physical chemistry, and mathematics through differential equations. Topics not covered by the text will be covered in the lecture, with some references to other sources, including journal articles.

 

DATE

LECTURE TOPIC

 

CHAPTER

2/1

Mechanics/ Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

 

0,1

2/8

Quantum Mechanics

 

2

2/15

Rotational Motion

 

3

2/22

Angular Momentum

 

4

3/1

Atomic Structure

 

7

3/8

EXAM I

 

 

3/15

Spring Break (no class)

 

 

3/22

Group Theory

 

5

3/29, 4/12

Molecular Structure

 

8

4/19

Computational Chemistry

 

6, 9

4/26

EXAM II

 

 

5/3

Vibration-Rotation Spectroscopy

 

10

5/10

Molecular Electronic Spectroscopy,  Photochemistry

 

11

 

FINAL EXAM (May ?, 7:30-9:30)

 

 

GRADING POLICY

 

     The grading for this course will be based on examination performance (300 points for each semester exam, 400 points for the final exam). Homework problems from the text will be assigned, but not collected. All in-class exams must be done with non-programmable, non-communicating devices (pencil, pen, slide rule, abacus, nonprogrammable calculator). Use of a programmable or communicating calculator on an in-class exam will result in a score of 0 on that assignment. A list of approved calculators may be found at the end of this document.

 

Academic honesty:

 

            The first time that a student is caught cheating on an exam, he or she will receive a grade of zero points for that assignment. For further consequences of violating academic ethics please refer to the University of Scranton Academic Code of Honesty: http://matrix.scranton.edu/student_handbook/policy_academic_code_honesty.html .

 

                                                  HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS

 

 

CHAPTER                                                                                    PROBLEMS

 

0                                                                                                      1,4-8, 11,15

 

1                                                                                                     1,3,9,11,25,28

 

2                                                                                                     10-15,19,20,24

 

3                                                                                                     1,19-22, 26

 

4                                                                                                     11,12

 

5                                                                                                     1-4,9,13-16

 

6                                                                                                     1,2,20-24

 

7                                                                                                    1-5,17-22

 

8                                                                                                    4,9-14,17,20

 

9                                                                                                    6,11,12,28-31               

          

10                                                                                                  8-11,16,18,20

 

11                                                                                                   3-7

 

Approved Calculators

 

TI 30 34 36 83 84 89

 

HP  33 35 39 40 48 50

 

Casio FX- 250 260 300