文档介绍：Words to the reader about how to use this textbook
I. What This Book Does and Does Not Contain
This text is intended for use by beginning graduate students and advanced upper
division undergraduate students in all areas of chemistry.
It provides:
(i) An introduction to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics as they apply to chemistry,
(ii) Material that provides brief introductions to the subjects of molecular spectroscopy and
chemical dynamics,
(iii) An introduction putational chemistry applied to the treatment of electronic
structures of atoms, molecules, radicals, and ions,
(iv) A large number of exercises, problems, and detailed solutions.
It does not provide much historical perspective on the development of quantum
mechanics. Subjects such as the photoelectric effect, black-body radiation, the dual nature
of electrons and photons, and the Davisson and Germer experiments are not even
discussed.
To provide a text that students can use to gain introductory level knowledge of
quantum mechanics as applied to chemistry problems, such a non-historical approach had
to be followed. This text immediately exposes the reader to the machinery of quantum
mechanics.
Sections 1 and 2 (., Chapters 1-7), together with Appendices A, B, C and E,
could constitute a one-semester course for most first-year Ph. D. programs in the U. S. A.
Section 3 (Chapters 8-12) and selected material from other appendices or selections from
Section 6 would be appropriate for a second-quarter or second-semester course. Chapters
13- 15 of Sections 4 and 5 would be of use for providing a link to a one-quarter or one-
semester class covering molecular spectroscopy. Chapter 16 of Section 5 provides a brief
introduction to chemical dynamics that could be used at the beginning of a class on this
subject.
There are many quantum chemistry and quantum mechanics textbooks that cover
material similar to that contained in Sections 1 and 2; in fact, our treatment of this materi