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Quantum Mechanics 1 N. J. B. Green (Reader in Chemistry, Reader in Chemistry, King's College, London)

Quantum Mechanics 1 By N. J. B. Green (Reader in Chemistry, Reader in Chemistry, King's College, London)

Summary

Quantum mechanics is of central importance in chemistry. This book explains the foundations of the subject and explains how it can be applied to chemical problems. Quantum Mechanics assumes the reader has completed a first year mathematics course and is aimed at second and third year undergraduates.

Quantum Mechanics 1 Summary

Quantum Mechanics 1: Foundations by N. J. B. Green (Reader in Chemistry, Reader in Chemistry, King's College, London)

Quantum mechanics is of central importance in chemistry. To understand matter and its chemical transformations it is necessary to take a microscopic view connecting experimental observation to the properties of constituent molecules. However, at this microscopic level atoms and sub- atomic particles do not obey the classical laws of mechanics that pertain to the everyday macroscopic world. They obey the laws of quantum mechanics. The aim of this book is to explain the fundamentals of quantum mechanics from the point of view of chemistry; to describe areas of chemistry where quantum mechanics is most important; and to show how quantum mechanics is applied to chemical problems. To this end, the book is divided into two parts: the first deals with the foundations of quantum mechanics (concentrating on exactly soluble problems and the reduction of complicated problems to simple foundations) and the second is a tool kit for applying quantum mechanics to chemical problems (thus concentrating on approximate methods). Although advanced mathematics has been kept to a minimum, the nature of the subject means a certain amount of mathematics is necessary and it is assumed the reader is familiar with a typical first year mathematics course. Quantum Mechanics is an intermediate level text aimed at second and third year undergraduates.

Quantum Mechanics 1 Reviews

This provides an excellent introduction giving the chemist's approach to quantum mechanics. * Aslib Book Guide, Vol. 63, No. 2, Feb '98 *

Table of Contents

Introduction ; 2. Fundamental Principles ; 2. Separations ; 3. Exact Solutions ; 4. Symmetries ; 5. Normal modes of vibration ; 6. Molecular Orbitals

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GOR013707476
9780198557616
0198557612
Quantum Mechanics 1: Foundations by N. J. B. Green (Reader in Chemistry, Reader in Chemistry, King's College, London)
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Oxford University Press
19970911
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