Physical Chemistry

1. Quantum Mechanics—Historical Background, Photoelectric Effect, Compton Scattering.
2. Wave Nature of the Electron and the Internal Structure of an Atom.
3. Two-Slit Experiment; Quantum Weirdness.
4. Classical Wave Equation and Separation of Variables.
5. Quantum Mechanics: Free Particle and Particle in 1D Box.
6. 3-D Box and QM Separation of Variables.
7. Classical Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator.
8. Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator.
9. The Harmonic Oscillator: Creation and Annihilation Operators.
10. The Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation.
11. Wavepacket Dynamics for Harmonic Oscillator and PIB.
12. Catch Up and Review & Postulates.
13. From Hij Integrals to H Matrices I.
14. From Hij Integrals to H Matrices II.
15. Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory I.
16. Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory II: HO using a,a†.
17. Rigid Rotor I; Orbital Angular Momentum.
18. Rigid Rotor II. Derivation by Commutation Rules.
19. Spectroscopy: Probing Molecules with Light.
20. Hydrogen Atom I.
21. Hydrogen Atom II; Rydberg States.
22. Helium Atom.
23. Many-Electron Atoms.
24. Molecular Orbital Theory I; Variational Principle and Matrix Mechanics.
25. Molecular Orbital Theory II; H2+, A2, AB Diatomics.
26. Qualitative MO Theory: Hückel.
27. Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory III.
28. Modern Electronic Structure Theory: Basis Sets.
29. Modern Electronic Structure Theory: Electronic Correlation.
30. Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory I: H is Time-Independent, Zewail Wavepacket..
31. Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory II: H is Time-Dependent: Two-Level Problem.
32. Intermolecular Interactions by Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory.
33. Electronic Spectroscopy: Franck-Condon.
34. Electronic Spectroscopy and Photochemistry.
35. Delta-Functions, Eigen-Functions of X, Discrete Variable Representation.
36. Time Dependence of Two-Level Systems: Density Matrix, Rotating Wave Approximation.