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Book SynopsisQuantum Mechanics for Chemists is designed to provide chemistry undergraduates with a basic understanding of the principles of quantum mechanics. The 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 Schr÷dinger 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 basi
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I will be recommending it to my students if they are looking for a refresher on some of the key concepts in quantum mechanics. Previous student evaluations of my courses have asked for something along these lines, so I’m happy to have found something suitable. Overall I thought the book took a very good route through a complicated subject, and I appreciated how it always focused on a chemical relevance, rather than bogging down in abstract quantum mechanics. -- Grant Hill, University of Sheffield
Table of ContentsParticle-Wave Duality; Particle in a One-dimensional Box; Uncertainty Arising from the Wave Nature of Matter; The One-dimensional Schr÷dinger Wave Equation and Some of its Applications; Rotational Motion; The Hydrogen Atom; Further Concepts in Quantum Mechanics and Their Application to Many-electron Atoms; The Structure of Molecules; Answers to problems; Subject Index.
