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://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1998/index.html
Assignment 2, due Monday 21 January.
Problems on: photoelectric effect; de Broglie; particle in a box.
Assignment 3, due Monday 28 January.
Essay + Problems on: particle in a 3-D box.
Assignment 4, due Monday 4 February.
Problems on operators, eigenvalues and eigenvectors; pure rotational spectroscopy.
Assignment 5, due Monday 11 February.
Analysis of the emission spectrum of atomic H (get data file here).
Assignment 6, due Monday 25 February.
Problems on NMR, ESR.
Sorry, no Assignment in week of mid-term exam.
If you really miss the fun of problem solving...
an old mid-term exam is available here
Assignment 7, due Monday 4 March.
Redo the questions from the mid-term exam!
Assignment 8, due Monday 11 March.
Problems on atomic term symbols; the Helium atom.
Assignment 9, due Monday 18 March.
Problems on vibrational and rotation-vibration spectra.
Assignment 10, due Monday 25 March.
Problems on rotational Raman; vibrational spectra; hybrid orbitals.
Assignment 11, due Wednesday 3 April.
Problems on molecular orbitals; Hückel calculation.