Online quantum chemistry textbook written by C. David Sherrill, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology. It was created as part of a resource for college students at both the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. This textbook has been adopted by colleges around the world and has also helped more than a few high school students get a head start on their classmates.
Table of Contents
- The Motivation for Quantum Mechanics
- The Ultraviolet Catastrophe
- The Photoelectric Effect
- Quantization of Electronic Angular Momentum
- Wave-Particle Duality
- The Schrödinger Equation
- The Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation
- The Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
- Mathematical Background
- 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 Hydrogen Atom
- Approximate Methods
- Perturbation Theory
- The Variational Method
- 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
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A Brief Review of Elementary Quantum Chemistry
