ADVANCED PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Chimica ADVANCED PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

0522300009
DIPARTIMENTO DI CHIMICA E BIOLOGIA "ADOLFO ZAMBELLI"
CHEMISTRY
2015/2016

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2010
PRIMO SEMESTRE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
1CHIMICA FISICA SUPERIORE MODULO A
756LESSONS
2CHIMICA FISICA SUPERIORE MODULO B
224EXERCISES
336LAB
Objectives
ACHIEVE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAWS OF THE MICROSCOPIC MATTER;
APPLY THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING TO CHEMICAL PROBLEMS IN A PROFESSIONAL WAY;
ACHIEVE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE INFORMATION, NEW IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS.
ACHIEVE THE ABILITY OF INTEPRETING RELEVANT DATA AND OF DESIGNING AN EXPERIMENT.
DEVELOP LEARNING SKILLS NECESSARY FOR THEIR PROFESSIONAL LIFE.
Prerequisites
CLASSICAL PHYSICS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND LINEAR ALGEBRA
Contents
PROBABILITY AMPLITUDES; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE; FERMIONS AND BOSONS; SCHROEDINGER EQUATIONS. MEASUREMENTS IN QUANTUM MECHANICS; STERN-GERLACH EXPERIENCE. THE TWO STATE MODEL; VARIATIONAL THEOREM AND PERTURBATION THEORY. MULTIELECTRON ATOMS; SPECTROSCOPIC TERMS. BORN-OPPHENEIMER THEOREM, THE CHEMICAL BOND; THE MO AND VB METHODS. TIME-DEPENDENT PERTURBATION THEORY; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; ROTATIONAL, VIBRATIONAL AND ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPIES.
USE OF THE FOURIER TRANSFORM IN VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY; PERTURBATIVE APPROACH TO VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS.
LABORATORY EXPERIENCES: VIBROROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF HCL; ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF A SYMMETRIC TOP; HUECKEL METHOD; DETERMINATION OF A BOND ENERGY LINK: VIBRONIC SPECTRUM OF MOLECULAR IODINE; NUMERICAL APPLICATION OF THE VARIATIONAL METHOD FOR DETERMINING EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS OF A ONE-DIMENSIONAL ANHARMONIC POTENTIAL; APPLICATIONS OF STATISTICAL TESTS FOR SELECTION OF LINEAR MODELS.
Teaching Methods
LECTURES AND EXCERSICES
Verification of learning
ORAL EXAMINATION CONCERNING LABORATORY EXPERIENCES AND THE APPLICATION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES TO CHEMICAL PROBLEMS
Texts
FRENCH, TAYLOR, AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM PHYSICS, MIT PRESS 1985;
FEYNMANN R. LEZIONI DI FISICA, VOL 3;
LEVINE I.N. QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;
HOLLAS, MODERN SPECTROSCOPY, JOHN WILEY & SONS
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