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2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

CHM 527 - Electronic Structure of Atoms and Molecules

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Fundamental quantum mechanical principles of electronic structure. Angular momentum, the hydrogen atom problem, helium ground and excited states, electron spin and antisymmetrization, many electron atoms, bonding theory, valence bond and molecular orbital theory of diatomic and polyatomic molecules, applications of group theory to molecular orbital calculations, the self-consistent field method.
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