CHEM 475

Honors Quantum Mechanics of Atoms and Molecules

NSc

Prerequisites

Either CHEM 153, CHEM 162, or CHEM 165; MATH 126 or MATH 136; and PHYS 116 or PHYS 123.

Description

Origins and basic postulates of quantum mechanics, solutions to single-particle problems, angular momentum and hydrogenic wave functions, matrix methods, perturbation theory, variational methods. Covers quantum mechanics at greater depth than <span class="linkified" data-id="85599d5f-adfa-49c6-bec2-be799687a2a7" data-subject="CHEM" data-number="455" data-title="Quantum Mechanics of Atoms and Molecules" data-text="CHEM 455" />.

CEC Data

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