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Contact Info

Prof. Thanh N. Truong

Office: INSCC 310

Email: Thanh.Truong@utah.edu

phone: 581-4301

TA Office Hours: by appointment only: Nils Baumann

Textbook

Physical Chemistry Second Edition by Engel & Reid (Starting from Chaper 12)

Syllabus and others:

Previous Exams

Fall93: Chem316_Midterm1_Fall93.pdf, Chem316_Midterm2_Fall93.pdf, Chem316_Midterm3_Fall93.pdf, Chem316__Final_Fall93.pdf

Fall05: Chem3030_Midterm1_Spr05.pdf, Chem3060_mid-term2__2005.pdf, Chem3060_2005-final-exam.pdf

Fall07: First_Exam_Answer_Key.pdf, Chem3090-Keys.pdf, Chem_3060_Fall_2007_finalexamkey.pdf

Fall08: Chem3060-F08-exam1-keys.pdf, CHEM3060-F08-test2-keys.pdf

Spring09: Chem3060-S09-exam1-keys.pdf,Chem_3060_Spring09-exam2-keys.pdf

Previous Lecture Notes

Previous Homeworks

Exam Keys

Lecture Notes

Week 7: Elizabeth_Black_Oct_22.pdf, KaitlynLe_10.22_notes.pdf Week 5: Lecture09.pdf

Hydrogen Atom

Viewing atomic orbitals

Week 4: Lecture06.pdf , Lecture07.pdf , Lecture08.pdf

Particle on a Sphere

Rigid Rotor ; Rotational Spectra; Nice graphics!

Harmonic Oscillator ; Classical versus Quantum Mechanics

The Particle in a Box - A QM Model for Translation

Week 3: Read Chapters 14 and 17, starting Chapter 15

The Quantum Mechanical Postulates

The Particle in a Box - A QM Model for Translation

Week 2: Read Chapter 13

The Schrödinger Equation

Operators

Week 1: Chapter 12 (Physical Chemistry Textbook), same as Chapter 1 (Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy textbook)

Overview of Classical Mechanics

Failures of Classical Mechanics

Homework Assignments

Week 12: (Due date: Monday, Apr 26)

Assignment:Chapter 25: Problems: 10, 16, 18

Computational problems: Exercises 6-11 from ACER for Physical Chemistry

Week 11: (Due date: Friday, Apr. 16)

Use Avisto verify Fig. 24.13, 24.14, and 24.15

Chapter 24: Questions: 9, 11, 13,

Problems: 1, 2, 8, 15, 16. For problems 15 and 16, use Avisto to verify your results.

Computational problems: Use Avisto for problems C24.1 and C24.4.

Exam # 2: April 9 (in class)

Chapters: 20-23

You can bring one new cheat-sheet.

Week 10: (due date: Friday, Apr. 2)

Recommendation: Chaper 23: Problems 3,9,10, 13

Assignment: Chapeter : Problems 5, 6, 8, 12, 19

Week 9: (Due date: Friday, Mar. 19)

Recommendation: Chaper 22: 17, 23, 25, 30, 36

Assignment: Chapeter 22: 11,20, 27, 32 Questions: 7, 10

Week 8: (Due date: Friday, Mar. 12)

Recommendation: Chapter 21: Questions: 1, 7,12

Assignment: Problems: 4 and 8

Week 6: (Due date: Friday, Mar. 5)

Recommendation: Chapter 19: Chapter 20:

Assignment: Chapter 20: 1, 4, 14, 28, 30

1st Midterm Exam: Feb. 22 (In class exam)

Chapters: 12-19

Info: You can bring one cheat-sheet

Week 5: (Due date: Friday, Feb. 19)

Recommendation: Chapter 18: Problems: 12, 23, 33

Assignment: Chapter 18: problems: 2, 15,20, 30,

Week 4: (Due date: Friday, Feb. 12)

Recommendation: Chapter 16: Problems: 3 Chapter 17: Problems: 4,5

Assignment: Chapter 16: Problems: 1, 4 Chapter 17: Problems: 7, 8, 21

Week 3: (Due date: Friday, Feb. 5)

Recommendation: Chapter 15: Problems: 8, 10, 13, 20, 21

Assignment: Chapter 15: Problems: 5,9,19,22, and the following problems:

1. Determine whether the following functions are aceptable or not as state functions over the internals. If not give the reason.

  1. 1/x (0, $ \infty $ )
  2. ${ e}^{ -2x} sinh \: x $ (0, $ \infty $ )
  3. $ {e}^{-x} cos \: x $ (0, $ \infty $ )
  4. $e^x $ ($-\infty $, $ \infty $ )

2. In previous chapter, we learned that if $ \psi_n$ is an eigenfunction of the time-independent Schrodinger equation, then

\[ \Psi_n (x,t) = \psi_n (x) { e}^{ -i E_n t/ \hbar } \]

Show that if $\psi_n$ and $\psi_m$ are eigenfunctions of the time-independent Schrodinger equation, then the state

\[ \Psi_n (x,t) = C_n \psi_n (x) { e}^{ -i E_n t/ \hbar } + C_m\psi_m(x) { e}^{ -i E_mt/ \hbar } \]

satisfy the time-dependent Schrodinger equation.

Week 2: (Due date: Friday, Jan. 29)

Recommendation: Chapter 13 Problems: 2, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 30, 36

Assignment: Problems #: 3, 4, 11, 24, 29, 34

Week 1: (Due date: Friday, Jan. 22)

Recommendation: Chaper 12 of the Physical Chemistry textbook: Problems #: 5, 12, 21, 25

Assignments: Problems #: 3, 6, 15, 19

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