Lecture Notes

The notes for lectures 28 and 29 courtesy of Prof. Troy Van Voorhis. Used with permission. 

LEC # Lecture Notes
1 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Quantum Mechanics—Historical Background, Photoelectric Effect, Compton Scattering (PDF)
2

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Wave Nature of the Electron and the Internal Structure of an Atom (PDF)

Lecture 2 Supplement: Geiger–Marsden Revisited (PDF)
3 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Two-Slit Experiment, Quantum Weirdness (PDF)
4 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.The Classical Wave Equation and Separation of Variables (PDF)
5 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Begin Quantum Mechanics: Free Particle and Particle in a 1D Box (PDF)
6 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.3-D Box and Separation of Variables (PDF)
7 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Classical Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator (PDF)
8 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator (PDF)
9  This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Harmonic Oscillator: Creation and Annihilation Operators (PDF)
10  This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.The Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation (PDF)
11

Wavepacket Dynamics for Harmonic Oscillator and PIB (PDF)

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Lecture 11 Supplement: Nonstationary States of Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator (PDF)
12 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Looking Backward Before First Hour Exam: Postulate (PDF)
13–14 From Hij Integrals to H Matrices (PDF)
15  This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory I (PDF)
16 

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory II: Harmonic Oscillators Using a,a† (PDF)

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Lecture 16 Supplement: Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory III (PDF)
17  This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Rigid Rotor I (PDF)
18  This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Rigid Rotor II (PDF) 
19

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Spectroscopy: Probing Molecules with Light (PDF) 

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Lecture 19 Supplement: Perturbation Theory: Matrix Notation, Applications to Dynamics (PDF)
20   This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Hydrogen Atom I (PDF) 
21  This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Hydrogen Atom II (PDF)
22  Helium Atom (PDF)
23 

Many–Electron Atoms (PDF)

Lecture 23 Supplement: Slater Determinantal Matrix Elements (PDF)
24 

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Molecular Orbital Theory, Matrix Mechanics and Variational Principle (PDF) 

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Lecture 24 Supplement: General Eigenvalue Problem for LCAO-MO Expressed in Matrix Notation (PDF)
25  This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Molecular Orbital Theory of Diatomic Molecules (PDF)
26 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Qualitative MolecularOrbital Theory: Hückel Theory (PDF) 
This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.27 Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory III (PDF)
28–29  

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Modern Electronic Structure Theory: Basis Sets (PDF) 

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Modern Electronic Structure (PDF)

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Modern Electronic Structure Theory: Electron Correlation (PDF)
30–31 Electronic Spectroscopy. Franck-Condon (PDF)
32 

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Adiabatic↔Diabatic: Zewail (PDF)

Lecture 32 Supplement: Zewail Wavepacket Experiment (PDF - 1MB)
33 Intermolecular Interactions (PDF)
34  This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Electronic Spectroscopy and Photochemistry (PDF - 1MB)
35  Delta-functions, Eigenfunctions of X, and Discrete Variable Representation (PDF)
36 This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Time Dependence of Two-Level Systems: Density Matrix, Rotating Wave Approximation (PDF)