PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I

Guglielmo MONACO PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I

0512400003
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY "ADOLFO ZAMBELLI"
EQF6
CHEMISTRY
2022/2023

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 2
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2016
SPRING SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
756LESSONS
336EXERCISES
224LAB
Objectives
STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO ACHIEVE: I) KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE BASIC LAWS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS AND STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS; II) ABILITY TO MANAGE SPECTRAL DATA III) ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE IN TECHNICAL LANGUAGE; IV) DEVELOPING LEARNING SKILLS NECESSARY FOR PROFESSIONAL LIFE.
Prerequisites
BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS, ELECTROMAGNETISM, AND CALCULUS.
Contents
THE BLACK BODY RADIATION; PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT; FRANCK-HERTZ EXPERIMENT; COMPTON EFFECT; BOHR’S HYDROGEN ATOM; DE BROGLIE HYPOTHESIS. (8 HR FRONTAL 4 HR TUTORIAL). PROBABILITY AMPLITUDES; THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE; IDENTICAL PARTICLES; FERMI AND BOSE PARTICLES (8 HR FRONTAL 8 HR TUTORIAL). THE PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS; MATRIX REPRESENTATION; THE HAMILTONIAN MATRIX; TWO STATE SYSTEMS; RESONANCE; THE CHEMICAL BOND; THE WAVE FUNCTION (8 HR FRONTAL 12 HR TUTORIAL). TIME INDEPENDENT SCHROEDINGER EQUATION. PARTICLE IN A RIGID BOX, PARTICLE IN A RING; THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR (12 HR TUTORIAL). ANGULAR MOMENTUM; STERN-GERLACH EXPERIENCE; HYDROGEN ATOM (8 HR FRONTAL ). MULTIELECTRON ATOMS; ATOMIC TERMS; DIATOMIC MOLECULES (8 HR FRONTAL).; INTRODUCTION TO SPECTROSCOPY; ONE PHOTON SELECTION RULES; ROTATIONAL, ROVIBRATIONAL AND ELECTRONIC SPECTRA (8 HR FRONTAL 24 HR LAB). MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS QUANTITIES; ENSEMBLES AND POSTULATES; CANONICAL, MICROCANONICAL, AND GRANDCANONICAL ENSEMBLES; CANONICAL ENSEMBLE AND THERMODYNAMICS. CANONICAL PARTITION FUNCTION FOR SYSTEMS COMPOSED OF INDEPENDENT DISTINGUISHABLE AND INDISTINGUISHABLE PARTICLES. MONOATOMIC GAS; EINSTEIN MODEL OF MONOATOMIC CRYSTALS. IDEAL DIATOMIC GAS: ROTATIONAL AND VIBRATIONAL PARTITION FUNCTIONS AND THERMODYNAMIC QUANTITIES. CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIA. (8 HR FRONTAL).
Teaching Methods
TEACHING INCLUDES LECTURES FOR A TOTAL OF 56 HOURS (7 CREDITS), NUMERICAL EXERCISES FOR 36 HOURS (3 CREDITS) AND LABORATORY FOR A TOTAL OF 24 HOURS (2 CREDIT).
THE CLASSROOM ATTENDANCE RATE IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED AND THAT OF LABORATORY EXERCISES IS MANDATORY. TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS TO THE FINAL EXAM, STUDENTS MUST HAVE ATTENDED AT LEAST 70% OF THE EXPECTED LABORATORY HOURS.
THE ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION MODE IS ANNOUNCED BY THE TEACHER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE
Verification of learning
THE EXAM CONSISTS OF TWO PARTS: A WRITTEN TEST AND AN ORAL EXAM. ACCESS TO WRITTEN TEST IS ALLOWED ONLY AFTER DELIVERING WRITTEN REPORTS OF THE LAB WORKS. THE WRITTEN TEST (DURATION 90 MIN) CONSISTS OF THREE NUMERICAL EXERCISES ON SUBJECTS CONCERNING THE ENERGY LEVEL OF CONFINED PARTICLES, OF ATOMS, AND OF MOLECULES, THE TWO STATE MODEL (RESONANCE), AND INTERPRETATION AND HANDLING OF SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNALS OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES.
DURING THE COURSE, THREE WRITTEN TESTS ARE SCHEDULED WITH MONTHLY CADENCE. PASSING THESE TESTS, WITH A MINIMUM AVERAGE EVALUATION OF 16, ALLOWS THE EXEMPTION FROM THE WRITTEN TEST.
THE UNIQUE WRITTEN TEST TAKES PLACE BEFORE THE ORAL TEST AND IS CONSIDERED PASSED BY ACHIEVING THE MINIMUM SCORE (18/30). THE ORAL TEST CONSISTS OF AN INTERVIEW WITH QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION ON THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTENTS LISTED IN THE TEACHING PROGRAM AND IS DESIGNED TO ENSURE THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL UNDERSTANDING REACHED BY THE STUDENT, AS WELL AS TESTING THE EXPOSURE CAPACITY BY USING THE APPROPRIATE TERMINOLOGY. THE MINIMUM SCORE IS GUARANTEED
BY KNOWLEDGE OF THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENTS: MEASUREMENTS IN QUANTUM MECHANICS, HYDROGEN ATOM, ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF BIATOMIC MOLECULES, VIBRATIONAL AND ROTATIONAL SPECTRA. THE MAXIMUM SCORE IS ACHIEVED WHEN THE STUDENT IS ABLE TO DISCUSS ALL THE PROPOSED ARGUMENTS. EXCELLENCE REQUIRE A MINIMUM SCORE OF 27/30 AT THE WRITTEN PART.
Texts
MC QUARRIE SIMON, CHIMICA FISICA UN APPROCCIO MOLECOLARE; ZANICHELLI
FRENCH, TAYLOR, AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM PHYSICS, MIT PRESS 1985
T. HILL AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS, DOVER
FURTHER INSIGHTS:
BARROW G.M. INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY, MCGRAW-HILL;
LEVINE I.N. QUANTUM CHEMISTRY. ALLYN AND BACON
More Information
TEACHING IS ENTIRELY DONE ON BLACKBOARD TO ALLOW STUDENTS TO FOLLOW IT MORE CLOSELY; LECTURE NOTES ARE AVAILABLE FOR SPECIFIC TOPICS.
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