Chemistry 4502

These pale electrons
Flitting 'round first seen then not
Quantum earth, air, fire

CHEMISTRY 4502

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II (QUANTUM MECHANICS)

SECTION 1

M, W, F 10:10 - 11:00 AM

331 Smith Hall

Spring Semester 2006

Instructor: Professor Christopher Cramer

Paraprofessionals: Kin-Yiu Wong, and George Giambasu

Course Information

Syllabus (click here for .pdf version)
Lecture notes by day
Optional reading
A summary of final grades is available.

Sample Exams

Sample Exam 1 and its answer key.

Answers to additional example problems for first exam (questions found at end of Lecture 8).

Sample Exam 2 and its answer key.

Answers to example problems for second exam (questions found at end of Lecture 16). Also, the formula table that will be provided with the exam.

Sample Exam 3 and its answer key.

Answers to example problems for third exam (questions found at end of Lecture 24). Also, the formula table that will be provided with the exam.

Sample Exam 4 and its answer key.

Answers to example problems for fourth exam (questions found at end of Lecture 33). There is no formula table associated with this exam.

Sample Final Exam and its answer key.

Exams and Homework Keys (see syllabus for dates)

A map to the Science Classroom Bldg may be found here.

The final takes place from 10:30 to 12:30 AM Wednesday May 10th.

Exam 1 in versions a, b, c, and d (version letter appears at upper left of front page) and its answer keys in versions a, b, c, and d.
Exam 2 in versions a, b, c, and d (version letter appears at upper left of front page) and its answer keys in versions a, b, c, and d.
Exam 3 in the only version, a, b, c, and d, and its answer key in the only version, a. Note that question 8 of this exam was originally graded with answer (d) as correct. However, it is answer (b) that is correct. If you lost points on this question, please bring your exam to Professor Cramer and your score will be adjusted upwards 6 points (i.e., this question is eliminated and the exam will begin from a base of 6 instead of 0).
Exam 4 in versions a, b, c, and d (version letter appears at upper left of front page) and its answer keys in versions a, b, c, and d. Note that the problem listed as having answer GG is NOT really answered correctly (GG was "8", but the answer, "9", was not supplied). This problem was not graded and as a result all exams began from a base of 3 points.
Final Exam in versions a, b, c, and d (version letter appears at upper left of front page) and its answer keys in versions a, b, c, and d. Note that versions a and b had two possible correct answers in the multiple choice question about the parity operator (because of a misprint not present in the answer keys). Either choice was given full credit. For a summary of course grades, see the note above in the Course Information section.

Useful Links

You are welcome to alert me to links that you think would benefit the class by being included in the below listing.

A handy integral table (many others can also be found on the web).
CHEM 3502/4502, Spring 03 (Professor Jiali Gao, instructor)
HyperPhysics pages at Georgia State University. The "Quantum Physics" balloon in the top splash-page web is the most relevant starting point for this class, and there is a nice alphabetized index of topics in the right frame of the page.
Mathworld and Oviedo University have some very nice plots of the square moduli and real and complex components of the complex and real spherical harmonics.
The first, second, third, and fourth links visited in class when discussing interstellar microwave spectroscopy.
Dauger Research page with lovely pictures of hydrogenic orbitals and downloadable shareware (Mac only) to generate 3D orbital images and manipulate them in realtime.

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