Take Home Exams--Due May 5 at 5:00 PM
Class Information
- January 10 - week 1
- Lecture: Welcome and class overview
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 13, Sections 1-5
- January 17- week 2
- Lecture: Molecular Spectroscopy
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 13, Sections 11-13
- January 24- week 3
- Lecture: Overview to Molecular Quantum Mechanics: The Hydrogen Atom
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 6, Sections 1- 3
- Homework: Problems 1-5, these are trivial using Mathematica. Use the "Help" tab and search on "Legendre Polynomials" and "Spherical Harmonics." Try it.
- January 31- week 4
- Lecture: Overview to Molecular Quantum Mechanics: The Hydrogen Atom
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 6, Sections 4- 7
- February 7- week 5
- Lecture: The Variational Method
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 7, Sections 1- 3
- February 14 - week 6
- Lecture: Multielectron Atoms
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 8, Sections 1-7
- February 21- week 7
- Lecture: Molecular Orbitals
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 9, Sections 1-13
- February 28- week 8
- Lecture: Molecular Orbitals cont.
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 10, Sections 1-6
- March 7- week 9
- Lecture: Molecular Orbitals of extended systems
- Reading: An excellent article by Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann
- March 14- Spring break
- March 21- week 10
- Lecture: Computational Chemistry
- Reading: Continue with the Hofmann article and McQuarrie, Chapter 11
- March 28- week 11
- Lecture: Phase Equilibria
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 23, Sections 1-5
- April 4 - week 12
- Lecture: Rate Laws
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 28, Sections 1 - 4
- April 11- week 13
- Lecture: Rate Laws continued
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 28, Sections 5-8
- April 18- week 14
- Lecture: Reaction Mechanisms
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 29, Sections 1 -4
- April 25 - week 15
- Lecture: Reaction Mechanisms continued
- Reading: McQuarrie, Chapter 29, Sections 5-9
- May 2 - week 16 (Dead week)
- Last Project Due
- Take Home Exam Due