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Chemistry 475 -- Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy

Summary for Week 2

Reading in Levine: Chapter 17.4-17.7

Homework problems: Due on Jan 28: 17.9, 17.15, Week 2 homework sheet.

Key Concepts

matter waves

Heisenberg uncertainty principle

Schrödinger wave equation

wave function

correspondence principle

Know how to

set up the Hamiltonian for a molecular system

convert Hamiltonian to operator notation to use Schrodinger equation

 

 

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