Welcome to the Chem3060 web
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
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/x (0,
)
-
(0,
)
-
(0,
)
-
(
,
)
2. In previous chapter, we learned that if

is an eigenfunction of the time-independent Schrodinger equation, then
Show that if

and

are eigenfunctions of the time-independent Schrodinger equation, then the state
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