CHEM 260 - Atoms, Molecules, Spectroscopy ..........Spring 2000

Problem Sets
Unless otherwise announced in class, assignments are due at the start of the Monday morning lecture. 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://nobel.sdsc.edu/announcement-98/chemistry98.html
Read about the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry http://nobel.sdsc.edu/announcement-99/chemistry99.html

Assignment 2, due Monday 24 January.

Problems on: photoelectric effect; de Broglie; particle in a box.

Assignment 3, due Monday 31 January.

Problems on: particle in a 3-D box.

Assignment 4, due Monday 7 February.

Analysis of the emission spectrum of atomic H (get data file here).

Assignment 5, due Monday 14 February.

Problems on operators, eigenvalues and eigenvectors; pure rotational spectroscopy.

No Assignment in week of mid-term exam

Assignment 6, due Monday 28 February.

Problems on NMR, ESR.

Assignment 7, due Monday 6 March.

Problems on atomic wavefunctions; atomic spectra.

Assignment 8, due Monday 13 March.

Problems on atomic term symbols; the Helium atom.

Assignment 9, due Monday 20 March.

Problems on vibrational and rotation-vibration spectra.

Assignment 10, due Monday 27 March.

Problems on rotational Raman; vibrational spectra; hybrid orbitals.

Assignment 11, due Monday 3 April.

Problems on molecular orbitals; Hückel calculation.