4) Thursday Dec 1st by 5 pm (Week 11) Laboratory 25% Reports due two after start of lab exercise. Mid-term test 10% Friday November 4 (Week 7 end) Final Examination 35% As scheduled by University Total: 100% Note: The final date to withdraw from fall half courses without academic penalty is Nov. 8th, 2016. Topic schedule: Weekly topic schedule: Week Topic Quantum mechanics. Introduction to quantum mechanical concepts and their 1 relationship to spectroscopy. Historic moments in quantum theory development. (Ch. 12) 2 The Schrödinger Equation. The particle-in-a-box problem. (Ch. 13, exclude 13.7) Solution to the particle-in-a-box problem. Energy levels and the correspondence 3 principle. Normalization and probability. (Components of Ch. 14-17) Rotational motion. 3-D angular momentum properties. H-atom solution and atomic 4 orbitals. (Components of Ch. 14-17, Ch. 18, Ch. 20) 5 Visualization of atomic orbitals. Multi-electron atoms. (Ch. 21) The Variational method. Orbital approximation, molecular orbital theory. (Ch. 21, 6 23) Reading week Molecular Orbital theory, valence bond theory. (Aspects of Ch. 23-24) MID-TERM 7 test Friday in problem session time slot. See instructor if you have another course conflict. Kinetics. Rate laws, rate constants. Determination of rate constants. Reaction 8 (Ch. 35.1-35.5) Van’t Hoff plots. Method of initial rates. Indirect measures of concentration, and 9 their implications for the rate law. Temperature Dependence of rate constants. The Arrhenius equation. Unit control 10 with logarithms. (Ch. 35.9) Molecularity and Order. Composite mechanisms for reactions. Developing rate laws 11 from mechanisms. Parallel reactions. (Ch. 35.6-35.8, 35.10)
4) Thursday Dec 1st by 5 pm (Week 11) Laboratory 25% Reports due two after start of lab exercise. Mid-term test 10% Friday November 4 (Week 7 end) Final Examination 35% As scheduled by University Total: 100% Note: The final date to withdraw from fall half courses without academic penalty is Nov. 8th, 2016. Topic schedule: Weekly topic schedule: Week Topic 1 Quantum mechanics. Introduction to quantum mechanical concepts and their relationship to spectroscopy. Historic moments in quantum theory development. (Ch. 12) 2 The Schrödinger Equation. The particle-in-a-box problem. (Ch. 13, exclude 13.7) 3 Solution to the particle-in-a-box problem. Energy levels and the correspondence principle. Normalization and probability. (Components of Ch. 14-17) 4 Rotational motion. 3-D angular momentum properties. H-atom solution and atomic orbitals. (Components of Ch. 14-17, Ch. 18, Ch. 20) 5 Visualization of atomic orbitals. Multi-electron atoms. (Ch. 21) 6 The Variational method. Orbital approximation, molecular orbital theory. (Ch. 21, 23) Reading week 7 Molecular Orbital theory, valence bond theory. (Aspects of Ch. 23-24) MID-TERM test Friday in problem session time slot. See instructor if you have another course conflict. 8 Kinetics. Rate laws, rate constants. Determination of rate constants. Reaction (Ch. 35.1-35.5) 9 Van’t Hoff plots. Method of initial rates. Indirect measures of concentration, and their implications for the rate law. 10 Temperature Dependence of rate constants. The Arrhenius equation. Unit control with logarithms. (Ch. 35.9) 11 Molecularity and Order. Composite mechanisms for reactions. Developing rate laws from mechanisms. Parallel reactions. (Ch. 35.6-35.8, 35.10)
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