Mon, Wed, Fri 9:30 - 10:40 Kresge College Room 321
Instructor: Glenn L.
Millhauser,
Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry (chemistry.ucsc.edu/~glennm)
glennm-AT-chemistry.ucsc.edu
Office: 256
PSB x92176
Office Hours: Mon
3:00-4:00
Teaching Assistants
Matt Nix, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
nix-AT-chemistry.ucsc.edu
Office: 265
PSB x93390
Office
Hours: Thurs 2:00-3:00
Alex McDonald,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
alexmcd-AT-chemistry.ucsc.edu
Office: 265
PSB x93390
Office
Hours: Thurs 4:00-5:00
Note -- room change for secondary discussions
-- Monday 01A 2:00 PM section will be in PSB 110
-- Tuesday 01B 4:00 PM section will be in PSB 114
Syllabus
Text: Principles of
Physical
Chemistry by L. M. Raff, Prentice Hall
Calendar:
first lecture, Friday Sept 25; last lecture Friday December 4
midterm Friday October 30, in class;
final Wednesday December 9, 4:00-7:00 PM
holidays: Wednesday November 11 and Friday November 27 (ucsc
academic calendar)
Practice Midterm #1
Practice Midterm #2
Midterm Distribution
Midterm Key
Problem
Set #1 solutions
Problem
Set #2 solutions
Problem
Set #3 solutions
Problem
Set #4 solutions
Problem
Set #5 solutions
Problem
Set #6 solutions
Problem
Set #7
Problem
Set #8
Transforming the Laplacian to spherical coordinates -- you have to give this a look....
Youtube video showing the
paramagnetism of liquid oxygen
Video!! --
see youtube video
clips of your favorite quantum mechanicians from the 1927 Solvay
Conference
Java Applet showing particle in a 1D box wave functions.... you have to check this out and play around a bit.
Java Applet showing hydrogen atom orbitals (great view of spherical harmonics)
A nice approach from Wikipedia for calculating ground state term symbols