Chem 340: Physical Chemistry

• Syllabus
   
• Text web site: Engel, "Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy"
• Text resources on the web The Chemistry Place (login required)
• Relationship between "Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy" and "Physical Chemistry"
• Corrections to text: (in PDF)
  Physical Chemistry, corrections to printing  (red book)
  Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy  (purple book)
   
• General Resources
      Calculus Help Sheet
      Tables of Integrals
   
• Exam #1
      Postulates for QM
      wave functions for a 2D box
      Wave functions for a 3D box
      Coupled wells
  
      Problem Set #1:    Chapter 1 - 17
                                  Chapter 2 - 11, 17, 19, 21, 26        Here is the equation for 2.19: 
      Suggested problems:  Chapter 2 - 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22; Q3, Q5, Q10
      Extra problems: Chapter 2 - 5, 9, 13, 20, 23, 25, 29
  
      Problem Set #2:  Chapter 4 - 11, 13, 14, 22, Q8
                                     Chapter 5 - 3, 6ef
      Suggested problems: Chapter 4 - 5, 7, 8, 10, 16-19, 21, Q4,Q7,Q9
                                             Chapter 5 - 2, 4, Q1, Q3, Q6
      Extra Problems: Chapter 4 - 6, 9, 12, 15, 20, 23, 24, Q3
                                   Chapter 5 - 1, 5, Q2, Q4

      Practice Exam

   

• Exam 2
  spherical coordinates
  associated Legendre polynomials
  rigid rotor applet
  associated Leguarre functions
  Pictures of Hydrogen atom wave functions 
      Javaapplet 
      functions and pictures
      another applet
  
  Harmonic Oscillator worksheet answers

          Problem Set #3
                Chapter 6:  9, 13
                Chapter 7:  Q2; 4, 14, 21, 25, 27, 30(picture only)

          Suggested Problems
                Chapter 6:  Q4, Q5, Q7, Q8; 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 16
                Chapter 7:  Q1, Q5, Q7; 1, 5, 6, 7, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22, 24, 27
          Extra Problems
                Chapter 6: Q6, 5, 6, 8, 10, 15
                Chapter 7: Q6, 2, 3, 8, 9, 12, 13

    Problem Set #4
        Assign : Q9.5; P: 9.2, 9.5, 9.10, 9.14, 9.24; 7.28

        Suggested:
            Questions 9.2, 9.4, 9.7, 9.9, 9.10; 7.4, 7.8, 7.10
            Problems 9.1, 9.6, 9.8, 9.13, 9.15, 9.18, 9.20, 9.23; 7.23, 7.26
        Extra:
            Questions  9.1, 9.3, 9.6, 9.8 
            Problems 9.3, 9.4, 9.7bc, 9.16, 9.17, 9.21, 9.22

        Practice Exam
 

 
• Exam 3
      Atomic spectra java applet
      NIST webbook (for atomic energy levels and transitions)
      Molecular Orbitals
    
    Problem Set #5
         Assign:  Chapter 10 -  Q7, 6, 10, 12, 15, 19, 21, 23
                        Chapter 11 - 5, 10, 14
       
         Suggested:  Chapter 10 - Q3, Q4, Q6, Q8, Q11 to 18;  1, 2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 29
                               chapter 11 - Q9; 4, 6, 7, 11, 13
  
         Extra:  Chapter 10 - Q1, Q5, Q9; 2, 5, 7, 16, 25, 26
  
      Practice problems Chapt 12/13  answers 1 2 3
      More Chapter 12 and 13 practice
                  Chapter 12 - jQ2, Q3, Q4, Q11;  2, 5
                  Chapter 13 - Q2, Q3, Q17-20;
  
      Practice Exam
  
   
• Exam #4
      Problem Set #6
          Assigned: Chapter 13    Q6, Q16; P8, P10, P13, P18
          Suggested: Chapter 13  Q5, 7, 8, 11-15;  P5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 17
  
      Problem Set #7
          Assigned: Chapter 14  Q5, P11, P16
          Suggested: chapter 14 Q4, Q5, Q6; P10, P12, P15, P16, P17, P18
                              Chapter 17 P1, P2, P4, P5
  
      Extra practice problems
   
• PChem Links
      NIST Chemistry Webbook -  Contains databases of thermochemical properties of a large number of substances.  
      CODATA Key Values of Thermodynamics  Compilation of internationally accepted values for the thermodynamic properties of key chemical substances, proposed by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA).
      The laser game

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