Contents:
The Motivation for Quantum Mechanics
The Ultraviolet Catastrophe
The Photoelectric Effect
Quantization of Electronic Angular Momentum
Wave-Particle Duality
The Schr?dinger Equation
The Time-Independent Schr?dinger Equation
The Time-Dependent Schr?dinger Equation
Mathematical Background
Operators
Operators and Quantum Mechanics
Basic Properties of Operators
Linear Operators
Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues
Hermitian Operators
Unitary Operators
Commutators in Quantum Mechanics
Linear Vector Spaces in Quantum Mechanics
Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
Some Analytically Soluble Problems
The Particle in a Box
The Harmonic Oscillator
The Rigid Rotor
The Atom
Molecular Quantum Mechanics
The Molecular Hamiltonian
The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
Separation of the Nuclear Hamiltonian
Solving the Electronic Eigenvalue Problem
The Nature of Many-Electron Wavefunctions
Matrix Mechanics
Bibliography
The book was originally created for internal use at CCQC (Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia).
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University of Georgia
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