Quantum mechanics for chemists
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Designed to provide chemistry undergraduates with a
basic understanding of the principles of quantum mechanics, this text
assumes some knowledge of chemical bonding and a familiarity with the
qualitative aspects of molecular orbitals in molecules such as butadiene
and benzene. Thus it is intended to follow a basic course in organic
and/or inorganic chemistry. The approach is rather different from that
adopted in most books on quantum chemistry in that the Schrodinger wave
equation is introduced at a fairly late stage, after students have
become familiar with the application of de Broglie-type wavefunctions to
free particles and particles in a box. Likewise, the Hamiltonian
operator and the concept of eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are not
introduced until the last two chapters of the book, where approximate
solutions to the wave equation for many-electron atoms and molecules are
discussed. In this way, students receive a gradual introduction to the
basic concepts of quantum mechanics.
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Year:
1900
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Language:
english
Pages:
196
ISBN 10:
0854046070
ISBN 13:
9780854046072
Series:
Tutorial chemistry texts 14
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