Problem Sets
Unless announced otherwise, assignments are due by 5.30 pm Monday afternoon. They will be marked and returned during the Thursday morning laboratory/tutorial period.
Assignment 1, Non credit.
Read about the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1998/index.html
Assignment 2, due Monday 20 January.
Problems on: photoelectric effect; de Broglie.
Assignment 3, due Monday 27 January.
Essay + Problems on: particle in 1-D and 3-D boxes.
Assignment 4, due Monday 3 February.
Problems on operators, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; pure rotational spectroscopy.
Assignment 5, due Monday 10 February.
Problems on rotational spectroscopy and magnetic resonance.
Assignment 6, due Monday 17 February.
Problems on ESR, NMR.
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Assignment 7, due Monday 3 March.
Analysis of the emission spectrum of atomic H (get data file here).
Assignment 8, due Monday 10 March.
Problems on atomic spectra and term symbols.
Assignment 9, due Monday 17 March.
Problems on vibrational and rotation-vibration spectra.
Assignment 10, due Monday 24 March.
Problems on IR and Raman spectroscopy;
Assignment 11, due Wednesday 2 April.
Problems on hybridization; molecular orbitals; Hückel calculation.