Physical Chemistry 431 Lectures

Lecture 1

Blackbody Radiation

Lecture 2

Breakdown of Classical Physics

Lecture 3

The Wave Equation

Lecture 4

The Particle in a Box

Lecture 5

The Harmonic Oscillator

Lecture 6

The Rotational Hamiltonian

Lecture 7

The Hydrogen Atom

Radial functions

Average or Expectation Values

hydrogen atom radial functions

Angular functions: Legendre polynomials

s-electrons

p-electrons

d-electrons

Lecture 8

Many-electron Atoms

Lecture 9

Spin-Orbit Coupling

Lecture 10

LCAO-MO Theory, Hydrogen Molecule Ion

Lecture 11

LCAO-MO Theory, Polyatomic Molecules

Lecture 12

Hartree Fock and Density Functional Theories

Lecture 13

Group Theory: Applications of Symmetry

Lecture 14

Group Theory: Vibrational and Electronic Structure

Group Theory Chapters for CH703

Lecture 15

Lecture 15

Lecture 16

Lecture 16

Lecture 17

Lecture 17

Lecture 18

Vibrational Spectroscopy

Lecture 19

Rotational Spectroscopy

Lecture 20

Electronic Spectroscopy: The Franck-Condon Factor

Lecture 21

Excited States, Lasers and Non-Linear Optics

Lecture 22

Fluorescence and its applications

Lecture 23

NMR Introduction

Lecture 24

Vector picture of NMR

Lecture 25

Product Operators: COSY and NOESY

Lecture 26

Statistical Thermodynamics

Lecture 27

Statistical Entropy

Proof that Beta = 1/kT

Stirling's Approximation

Lecture 28

Dipole moments and Review