CHEM 540 Advanced Physical Chemistry
Fall 2006
Course Directors
Professor Benjamin McCall (fall 2006)
Description
(CHEM 348) The sequence, CHEM 540 and 542, is designed to give seniors and graduate students a unified treatment of physical chemistry on an advanced level; topics include the electronic structure and spectra of atoms, principles of wave mechanics, experimental and theoretical aspects of the chemical bond in diatomic and polyatomic molecules, statistical thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics.
Credits
(4 hours)Course Prerequisites
CHEM 444 or equivalent.
Required Materials
- Quantum Mechanics, vol. 1 & 2, by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu & Frank Lale
- Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscoy, 2nd ed., Philip R. Bunker & Per Jensen
- Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry, by Linus Pauling & E. Bright Wilson Jr.
Optional Materials
- Quantum Mechanics Non-Relativistic Theory: Vol. 3, 3rd ed., by E. M. Lifshitz & L. D. Landau
- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 4th ed., by P. A. M. Dirac
- Quantum Chemistry, 5th ed., by Ira Levine
