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Overview
Chapters
1. Intro to Quantum Mechanics
Why Quantum mechanics
The need for quantization
Photoelectric effect
Wave-particle duality
DEMO: Black Body radiation
2. Waves and wave equation
Waves
Wave equation
3. Schordinger Equation
Schrödinger Equation
Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
Wave function
Operators
Eigenvalues
Time dependence
Commutability and precision of measurement
4. Model systems
Molecular degrees of freedom
Particle in a 3D box
Harmonic Oscillator
Vibrational spectra of diatomic molecules
Beyond harmonic oscillator
Angular momentum
Rigid Rotor
Rotational spectra of diatomic molecules
Vibration-rotation spectra of diatomic molecules
5. Hydrogen Atom
Hydrogenlike atoms
Spectrum of hydrogenlike atoms
Probability densities for hydrogenlike atoms
Orbital angular momentum of the hydrogen atom
Spin
6. Approximations
Perturbation Method
Variational Method
Linear variational method
7. Multielectron atoms
Helium atom
Pauli exclusion principle
Angular momentum of many-electron atoms
Atomic terms and selection rules
8. Molecules
BO approximation
The hydrogen molecule ion
Energy of the hydrogen molecule ion
Electron configurations of homonuclear diatomic molecules
Electronic structure of polyatomic molecules: the valece bond method
Huckel molecular orbital theory
Dipole moments and ionic bonding
Intermolecular forces
Scratchpad
Extra stuff
Math
Integrals
Differentiation
QM overview
Units
Complex numbers
Python
Python3
NumPy
Plotting
Animations
Sympy
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3. Schordinger Equation
3. Schordinger Equation
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