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| CHM 4412: Physical Chemistry II
Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy
Summer C 2009 (May 11 - August 07) Section 7397
(4 Credit Hours)
MTW F Period 2 (9:30AM - 10:35AM)
FLI 109
{No Classes held: May 25, June 22 - June 26 (Summer Break), and July 3}
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No (specifically) Required Textbook:
Useful texts include the one you have or something like:
- Physical Chemistry, P. W. Atkins, 8th
Edition
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or similar titles by Levine, Raff, Castellan, etc. See brucat if you have questions...
Instructor: PJ Brucat
- Office Location: CLB311E
- Contact info
- Office Hours: 10:40AM - 11:30AM
M W
CLB313 (PChem Conf Rm)
Course Website:
UF's eLearning System
Teaching Assistant: Anna Melnichuk and Randi Price
- TA Office Location: TBA
- TA's Office Hours: TBA
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Tentative Syllabus
- An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
- Compare and Contrast Classical and Quantum Descriptions of Matter
- Fundamental Principles (Postulates) of Quantum Mechanics
- Operators and Observables
- Wavefunctions, Eigenvalues, and Boundary Conditions
- Exactly Soluble Systems in One Dimension
- Free Particle
- Particle in a Box
- The Harmonic Oscillator
- Traditional (Diff. eq.) Treatment
- Operator Algebra Treatment
- Systems in More than One Dimension
- 3D Particle in a Box
- 3D SHO
- Rigid Rotation and the Spherical Harmonics
- The Hydrogen Atom
- The Many-Electron Atoms
- Approximate Methods in Quantum Mechanics
- Perturbation Theory
- Variational Principle
- Independent Particle Approaches to Electrons in Molecules
- Molecular Orbitals (Qualitative Aspects)
- Molecular Symmetry and its Consequences
- Understanding Molecular Motion Spectroscopically
- The Separation of Molecular Motion by Time/Energy Scale
- The Measurement, Excitation and Control of Molecular Motion with Light
- A Survey of Spectroscopic Techniques
- Magnetic Resonance, Coherence, and Pure vs. Mixed States
Lectures, Lecture Material, and Office Hours
Lecture outlines for the entire course may be found on your
course eLearning website in html format.
These notes are continually updated, corrected and reordered,
and are meant to help you follow the lectures, not replace a textbook.
Please minimize the amount of printing wherever possible --- this saves trees.
The availablity of lecture notes is not intended to discourage class attendance,
reading your textbook,
or working homework assignments.
Office hours held by the lecturer are intended to augment lecture discussion
and those held by the TA are meant to help with the homework assignments.
If you cannot meet with either of your instructors
during scheduled office hours,
you make make an appointment by emailing said person with three possible
times you wish to
meet, and confirming the choice made by your instructor by return email.
Office hours will not be used to repeat material missed
due to an unexcused absence.
Homework
Problems relevent to the material and concepts covered in our Lectures
will be assigned on an approximately weekly basis.
Each student will submit their own original solutions to these problems
to the TA for diagnosis, however collaboration on the completion
of the assignment is allowed.
Your HW score will be derived from the total of all HW's submitted
on-time
and be capped at a maximum value of 100 points for the term.
Exams
There will be four in-class exams during the term,
which determine the bulk of your course grade,
held on the following Fridays:
May 29
June 19
July 24
August 07
These exams will be held during the 75 minute lecture period.
Each exam will total 100 points.
The total points for the Exams in the term is 400.
Final Exam
If all goes well, there will be no Final Exam.
If average performance of the class in Exam scores
is not >70% after Exam #3,
a Cumulative Final will be given in place of Exam #4
for a point value of 200
(double that of a normal Exam).
If this occurs, the lowest previous Exam score for each student will be
dropped and the grade will be computed
from the highest two Exams and the Cumulative Final.
In either case the exam total will be 400 points.
On-Line Quizzes
On-Line quizzes will be assigned approximately on a weekly basis
using the eLearning quiz tool.
The format and rules for each quiz will vary,
so read the instructions carefully.
Your Quiz score will be derived from the total of all Quiz's submitted
on-time
and be capped at a maximum value of 100 points for the term.
Grade Computation
The total points available to the student for this term will be 600:
four Exams (or two Exams and a Final) plus HW plus Quizzes.
The grade of an
A will be achieved for a score of 540 or above (90%),
A- for 480 to 539 points (80%),
B+ for 460 to 479 points,
B for 440 to 459 points,
B- for 420 to 439 points,
C+ for 400 to 419 points,
C for 380 to 399 points,
C- for 360 to 379 points, and so on.
- Students, faculty, and all participants in UF's Academic activities are
bound by an Honor Code
- Students with Disabilities may request special classroom and other facilities through the Dean of Students.
- Counseling services are available through several UF organizations
We, the members of the University of Florida
Community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest
standards of honesty and integrity
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