MWF 10:00AM – 10:50, FOSC 152
Instructor: W. Horsthemke, FS 313
Last updated April 29, 2009
For complete information about this class, please consult the First-Day Handout in the Handouts section below.
Final: Saturday, May 9, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM; covers
Set 7 and Set 8.
Office Hours during Finals week: Wednesday, May 6, 10:30 – 11:30 AM
and 2:00
– 3:00 PM; Friday, May 8, 10:30 – 11:30 AM
and 2:00
– 3:00 PM; or by appointment.
Handouts and lecture notes are available in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).
First Day: First-Day Handout (Syllabus)
pchem2hndout2009.pdf
Small collection of mathematical formulae formulae.pdf
Lecture Notes (The notes do not include problems
worked in class.):
Set 1: Chapter 8.1 – 8.4 and 9.1 – 9.2: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
PC2Chap8-9a.pdf
Set 2: Chapter 8.5 – 8.7 and 9.3: Quantum Mechanics: Foundations and
Applications PC2Chap8-9b.pdf
Set 3: Chapter 9.4 – 9.8: Quantum Mechanics: Vibrational and Rotational
Motion PC2Chap9c.pdf
Set 4: Chapter 10.1 – 10.3: The Hydrogen Atom PC2Chap10a.pdf
Set 5: Chapter 10.4, 10.7 – 10.9: Multielectron Atoms
PC2Chap10b.pdf
Set 6: Chapter 11.3 & 11.4: Diatomic Molecules PC2Chap11.pdf
Set 7: Chapter 12.1, 13.4 – 13.15: Molecular Spectroscopy:
Rotational and Vibrational Spectra PC2Chap13.pdf
Set 8: Chapters 16 & 17: Statistical Thermodynamics PC2Chap16-17.pdf
Set 9: Chapter 21.1 – 21.4, 21.7 (a), 21.9 (b), (c), (e), 21.10:
Molecules in Motion PC2Chap21.pdf
You should work all of the exercises and problems listed below.
Set 1: Exercises: 8.1(b), 8.2(b), 8.4(b), 8.7(b), 8.8(b),
8.10(b), 8.13(b), 9.1(b), 9.2(b), 9.4(b), 9.5(b), 9.6(b), 9.7(b).
Problems: 8.1, 8.13, 9.1, 9.31.
Set 2: Exercise: 8.3(b), 8.12(b), 8.14(b), 9.3(b). Problems: 8.7, 8.15,
8.17, 8.18, 8.19, 9.11.
Set 3: Exercises: 9.8(b), 9.9(b), 9.10(b), 9.11(b), 9.12(b),
9.13(b), 9.14(b), 9.15(b), 9.16(b), 9.17(b);
Problems: 9.3, 9.15, 9.17, 9.20, 9.27, 9.29, 9.35.
Set 4: Exercises: 10.1(b), 10.2(b), 10.3(b), 10.4(b), 10.5(b),
10.6(b), 10.7(b), 10.8(b), 10.11(b), 10.13(b), 10.14(b);
Problems: 10.1, 10.3, 10.7, 10.15, 10.17, 10.25.
Set 5: Exercises: 10.9(b), 10.10(b), 10.12(b), 10.15(b), 10.16(b),
10.17(b), 10.18(b), 10.19(b), 11.8(b), 11.9(b); Problems:
10.6, 10.9.
Set 6: Exercises: 11.1(b), 11.2(b), 11.3(b), 11.4(b), 11.5(b),
11.6(b), 11.10(b);
Problems: 11.10, 11.14 (Skip the last sentence).
Set 7: Exercises: 13.5(b), 13.6(b), 13.7(b), 13.8(b), 13.10(b),
13.11(b), 13.12(b), 13.13(b), 13.14(b), 13.15(b), 13.16(b), 13.17(b),
13.19(b), 13.21(b), 13.22(b), 13.23(b), 13.25(b);
Problems: 13.5, 13.7, 13.9, 13.13, 13.15, 13.17, 13.25, 13.27 (a)
– (d)
Set 8: Exercises: 16.1(b), 16.2(b), 16.3(b), 16.4(b), 16.5(b),
16.6(b), 16.7(b), 16.8(b), 16.9(b), 16.10(b), 16.11(b), 16.12(b),
17.1(b), 17.2(b), 17.3(b), 17.5(b), 17.6(b), 17.8(b), 17.10(b), 17.14(a) ;
Problems: 16.7, 16.9, 16.11, 16.17 (S is per molecule), 17.1, 17.6,
17.27.
Set 9: Exercises: 21.1(b), 21.2(b), 21.3(b), 21.4(b), 21.5(b),
21.6(b), 21.7(b), 21.8(b), 21.12(b), 21.13(b), 21.15(b) 21.17(b),
21.20(b), 21.21.(b), 21.28(b), 21.29(b); Problems: 21.21, 21.39.
Formulae sheets will be updated about one week before each test.
Test1 2009Web site for Atkins and de Paula: Physical Chemistry, 8th ed., with Living Graphs and links to Physical Chemistry on the Web. The site also has links to Errata to the Student Solutions Manual and to Text Errata.
The HyperPhysics web site contains a variety of modules that briefly present important concepts and experiments. The photoelectric effect and the Davisson-Germer experiment, for example, can be found in the Quantum Mechanics module.
A brief description and explanation of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Brief biography of Planck
Brief biography of Schrödinger
Brief biography of Sackur and Tetrode
Alastair Rae: Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality? 2nd ed., (Cambridge Univ Press, 2004) Very readable book about the main conceptual problems of quantum mechanics, the measurement problem and non-locality, and the various interpretations of quantum theory, Copenhagen interpretation, many-worlds interpretation, …
Fundamental Physical Constants and International System of Units National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)