Department of Chemistry
Oregon State University


OSU

CHEMISTRY 651
Quantum Mechanics of Atoms and Molecules Spring 2006

Instructor
   
Dr. Glenn T. Evans
   Gilbert 104
   737-6717

   glenn.evans@oregonstate.edu

Office Hou
    
M-F 1-2pm

Course Structure
   
Three credit-hour course

Terms Offered
   Not offered every year

Lecture
   Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:50 am
   APP 101

Grading
   Midterm Tuesday 9 May (40%)
   Final exam Monday 12 June 9:30am (40%) 
   Problem sets (20%)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
Latest news ... The ket for the final exam is given below, and the graded exams are available in GTE's office.
 
Assignments
problem set 1 answers
problem set 2 answers
problem set 3 answers
problem set 4 answers
 
 
Exams
exam 1 exam 2

Class Syllabus

week

topic (chapters)

comments

1

 Variational method, ch 7 (Lowe)

 

2

 Matrix methods and perturbation theory, ch 9,12 (Lowe)

 

3

 Electron spin and Hartree Fock for atoms, ch 10-11 (Levine)

 

4

 Hydrogen molecular ion

 

5

 Molecular hydrogen 

 

6

 Diatomic molecules

exam Tuesday

7

 Hartree Fock  for molecules and the virial theorem

 

8

 Ab initio molecular QM

 

9

 DFT

 

10

 Periodic systems,  ch 15 (Lowe)