Quantum mechanics for chemists

✍ Scribed by HAYWARD

• Book ID: 127454984
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Year: 1900
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Series: Tutorial Chemistry Texts, 14
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library
• ISBN-13: 9780854046072

✦ Synopsis

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.