Quantum chemistry & spectroscopy : a guided inquiry / Tricia D. Shepherd Professor of Chemistry, St. Edward's University; Alexander Grushow, Professor of Chemistry, Rider University

Author: Shepherd, Tricia D
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : John Wiley, 2014.
Physical Description: 278 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Additional Creators: Grushow, Alexander

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Introduction activities. Essential classical mechanics -- Blackbody radiation -- Photoelectric effect -- Introduction to spectroscopy -- The energies of molecules -- Bohr model., Fundamental activities. The postulates of quantum mechanics -- The particle-on-a-line model -- The language of quantum mechanics -- Molecular translation -- The particle-on-a-spring model -- Molecular vibration -- The particle-on-a-ring model -- Molecular rotation -- The hydrogen atom -- Hydrogen radial functions -- Hydrogen orbitals -- Multielectron atoms -- Electron configurations -- Electron spin -- Term symbols -- Born Oppenheimer approximation -- Linear combinations of atomic orbitals -- Diatomic molecules., Spectroscopy activities. Population of quantum states -- Vibrational spectroscopy -- Rotational spectroscopy -- Vibrational-rotational spectroscopy -- Electronic spectroscopy I : atoms -- Electronic spectroscopy II : molecules., Symmetry activities. Group theory -- Symmetry adapted molecular orbitals -- The symmetry of vibrational modes., and Extension activities. Operators and eigenvalue equations -- Hermetian operators -- The Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- Separation of variables -- Two-particle systems -- Even and odd functions -- Slater determinants -- Molecular energy integrals -- Huckel molecular orbital theory -- Ethylene molecular orbitals.

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1118877586
9781118877586

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"Pogil project" -- cover.

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