Quantum Chemistry: A Brief Review of Elementary Quantum Chemistry

• contents of this site
• http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/Docs/Knowledge/Fundamental_Theory/quantrev/quantrev.html
• Contents
• The Motivation for Quantum Mechanics
• The Ultraviolet Catastrophe
• The Photoelectric Effect
• Quantization of Electronic Angular Momentum
• Wave-Particle Duality
• The Schrödinger Equation
• The Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation
• The Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
• Mathematical Background
• Operators
• Operators and Quantum Mechanics
• Basic Properties of Operators
• Linear Operators
• Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues
• Hermitian Operators
• Unitary Operators
• Commutators in Quantum Mechanics
• Linear Vector Spaces in Quantum Mechanics
• Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
• Some Analytically Soluble Problems
• The Particle in a Box
• The Harmonic Oscillator
• The Rigid Rotor
• The Hydrogen Atom
• Molecular Quantum Mechanics
• The Molecular Hamiltonian
• The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
• Separation of the Nuclear Hamiltonian
• Solving the Electronic Eigenvalue Problem
• The Nature of Many-Electron Wavefunctions
• Matrix Mechanics
• Bibliography