CHM 370

Fall 2017

Homework and Reading Assignments

HW Set Assigned Due date Topics Do Notes
Problems
1 W 8-23-17 W 8-30-17 Ch 6: 6.1-6.4 Ch 6: 2-3
Intro to quantum Question
mechanics; wave on Piazza
mechanics
Eigenfunctions;
Eigenvalues;
Operators
2 W 8-30-17 W 9-6-17 Ch 6: 6.1-6.5 Ch 6: 4,6,8
Schrdinger
equation;
Hamiltonian;
Expectation values
3 W 9-6-17 W 9-13-17 Ch 6.5 Ch 6: 5,
Ch 7: 7.1 13, 18
Expectation values;
Wavefunctions
Uncertainty principle;
4 W 9-13-17 W 9-20-17 Ch 7: 7.1-7.3 Ch 7: 3-8
Particle in a box;
Particle on a ring

5 W 9-20-16 W 10-4-17 Ch 7: 7.2-7.4 Ch 7: Exam I:

Tunneling through 9,10,14,15, Covering
barriers 17,18 Homework
Harmonic oscillator Set 1,2,3,4
and applications to
chemical systems;

6 W 10-4-17 W10-11-17 Ch 7: 7.5 Ch 7:19-21

Particle on a sphere;
Particle in 3D box

7 W10-11- W10-18-17 Ch 8: 8.1-8.2 Ch 8: 2-4,

17 Hydrogen atom

8 W 10-18- W 10-27- Ch 8: 8.3-8.4 Ch 8: 1,

17 17 Ch 9: 9.1 6,7, 8(a-d),
9
Pauli exclusion
principles
Atomic orbitals;

1
 9 W 10-27- W 11-8-17 Ch 9: 9.2 Ch 8: 10- Exam II:
17 Periodic table 13 8:00p - 9:30p
Intro to molecular Ch 9: Covering
orbitals; 1,2(a&b), Homework Sets
5,6,7,8

10 W 11-8-17 W 11-15- Ch 9: 9.2-9.3 Ch 9: 4-7,

17 Chemical bonding
Huckle
approximation;

11 W 11-15- M 11-27-17 Ch 9: 9.4 Ch 9: 8-12,

17 17 d
Time-dependent
Schrodinger equation
Optical spectroscopy;
Selection rules;

12 W 11-29- W 12-6-17 In-class exercise To be Extra credit activity

17 posted on
Piazza Final: TBA
Covering
Homework sets 9,
10 ,11, 12
and review of
Exams I, II