Jan 10 |
Practice with Windows, Word, Excel, plotting |
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Jan 17 |
Particle in a box: the spectroscopy of polyenes |
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Jan 24 |
Particle in a 2-D box: cyclobutadiene |
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Jan 31 |
Particle on a ring: p-orbitals of cyclic polyenes |
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Feb 7 |
Moments of Inertia. Free radicals and unpaired electron distribution |
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Feb 14 |
ESR and NMR |
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Feb 21 |
Reading Break |
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Feb 28 |
Shapes of atomic orbitals; shapes of molecules |
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March 7 |
Bond vibration; Simple Harmonic Motion; Morse curve |
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March 14 |
Potential Energy surfaces: CO2 vibration, H + H2 |
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March 21 |
Bond formation 1: diatomic molecule |
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March 28 |
Bond formation 2: L.C.A.O. |
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Chirality: Nicotine |
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Conformational analysis: Ethane |