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Chy 475 -- Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy

Summary for Week 1

M, W, F, January 12,14,16, 2009

Reading in Levine: 17.1-17.4

Homework problems

Hand in on Wednesday, January 21: 17.1, 17.3, 17.5, 17.6,17.7, 17.70, complete class worksheets

Key Concepts

S.I. units for mass, distance, time => momentum, energy, force

Newton's laws of motion

Blackbody radiation law

Photoelectric effect

Bohr model of the hydrogen atom

Know how to

set up the energy expression for a classical mechanics problem

work with important equations for photometry

understand photoelectric effect and photoelectron spectroscopy

know the hydrogenic atom/ion energy levels (Bohr model)

Key Equations

dp/dt =ma=F

H=T+V

 

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