| LIGHT POLARIZATION AND INTERFERENCE, WAVE PROPERTIES OF PARTICLES. PHOTONS AND QUANTUM STATES. PROBABILITY AMPLITUDES AND SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE; FERMIONS AND BOSONS; SCHROEDINGER EQUATIONS. MEASUREMENTS IN QUANTUM MECHANICS. ANGULAR MOMENTUM AND STERN-GERLACH EXPERIMENT. MATRIX REPRESENTATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENVECTORS, THE TWO STATE MODEL, EFFECTIVE HAMILTONIAN. VARIATIONAL THEOREM AND PERTURBATION THEORY. IDENTICAL PARTICLE AND ATOMIC STRUCTURE; THE HELIUM ATOM, MULTIELECTRON ATOMS; ATOMIC TERMS. THE BORN-OPPHENEIMER THEOREM, THE THEORY OF CHEMICAL BOND: THE MO AND VB METHODS. HARTREE-FOCK AND DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY METHODS. TIME-DEPENDENT PERTURBATION THEORY; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; ROTATIONAL, VIBRATIONAL AND ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPIES. NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES, TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION AND EMISSION, FREQUENCY CONVERSION. INTERMOLECULAR FORCES.
LABORATORY EXPERIENCES: VIBROROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF HCL; ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF A SYMMETRIC TOP; HUECKEL METHOD; SPECTROSCOPIC DETERMINATION OF A BOND ENERGY: VIBRONIC SPECTRUM OF MOLECULAR IODINE; NUMERICAL APPLICATION OF THE VARIATIONAL METHOD FOR DETERMINING EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS OF A ONE-DIMENSIONAL ANHARMONIC POTENTIAL; APPLICATIONS OF STATISTICAL TESTS FOR SELECTION OF LINEAR MODELS
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