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What This Book Does and Does Not Contain  \nThis text is intended for use by beginning graduate students and advanced upper division undergraduate students in all areas of chemistry.  \nIt provides:  \n(i) An introduction to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics as they apply to chemistry,(ii) Material that provides brief introductions to the subjects of molecular spectroscopy and chemical dynamics,  \n(iii) An introduction to computational chemistry applied to the treatment of electronic structures of atoms, molecules, radicals, and ions,  \n(iv) A large number of exercises, problems, and detailed solutions.  \nIt does not provide much historical perspective on the development of quantum mechanics. Subjects such as the photoelectric effect, black-body radiation, the dual nature of electrons and photons, and the Davisson and Germer experiments are not even discussed.  \nTo provide a text that students can use to gain introductory level knowledge of quantum mechanics as applied to chemistry problems, such a non-historical approach had to be followed. This text immediately exposes the reader to the machinery of quantum mechanics.  \nSections 1 and 2 (i.e., Chapters 1-7), together with Appendices A, B, C and E, could constitute a one-semester course for most first-year Ph. D. programs in the U. S. A. Section 3 (Chapters 8-12) and selected material from other appendices or selections from Section 6 would be appropriate for a second-quarter or second-semester course. Chapters 13-15 of Sections 4 and 5 would be of use for providing a link to a one-quarter or onesemester class covering molecular spectroscopy. Chapter 16 of Section 5 provides a brief introduction to chemical dynamics that could be used at the beginning of a class on this subject.  \nThere are many quantum chemistry and quantum mechanics textbooks that cover material similar to that contained in Sections 1 and 2; in fact, our treatment of this material is generally briefer and less detailed than one finds in, for example, Quantum Chemistry, H. Eyring, J. Walter, and G. E. Kimball, J. Wiley and Sons, New York, N.Y. (1947), Quantum Chemistry, D. A. McQuarrie, University Science Books, Mill Valley, Ca.(1983), Molecular Quantum Mechanics, P. W. Atkins, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, England (1983), or Quantum Chemistry, I. N. Levine, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,  \nN. J. (1991), Depending on the backgrounds ofthe students, our coverage may have to be supplemented in these first two Sections.  \nBy covering this introductory material in less detail, we are able, within the confines of a text that can be used for a one-year or a two-quarter course, to introduce the student to the more modern subjects treated in Sections 3, 5, and 6. Our coverage of modern quantum chemistry methodology is not as detailed as that found in Modern Quantum Chemistry, A. Szabo and N. S. Ostlund, Mc Graw-Hill, New York (1989), which contains little or none of the introductory material of our Sections 1 and 2.  \nBy combining both introductory and modern up-to-date quantum chemistry material in a single book designed to serve as a text for one-quarter, one-semester, two-quarter, or one-year classes for first-year graduate students, we offer a unique product.  \nIt is anticipated that a course dealing with atomic and molecular spectroscopy will follow the student's mastery of the material covered in Sections 1-4. For this reason, beyond these introductory sections, this text's emphasis is placed on electronic structure applications rather than on vibrational and rotational energy levels, which are traditionally covered in considerable detail in spectroscopy courses.  \nIn brief summary, this book includes the following material:  \n1. The Section entitled The Basic Tools of Quantum Mechanics treats the fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics and several applications to exactly soluble model problems. These problems include the conventional particle-in-a-b","cbCaisWUPip0Aej3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisWUPip0Aej3","pdf",1606435,649,"English","# What This Book Does and Does Not Contain\n## Intended audience and scope\n## Included fundamentals and key topic coverage\n## Excluded historical perspective and classic experiments\n## Course structure by sections and appendices\n# Summary of main sections\n## The Basic Tools of Quantum Mechanics\n## Simple Molecular Orbital Theory\n## Electronic Configurations, Term Symbols, and States\n## Molecular Rotation and Vibration","[{\"question\":\"Who is the textbook intended for?\",\"answer\":\"It is intended for beginning graduate students and advanced upper division undergraduate students across all areas of chemistry.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the main topics included in the book?\",\"answer\":\"The book covers fundamentals of quantum mechanics as applied to chemistry, brief introductions to molecular spectroscopy and chemical dynamics, computational chemistry for electronic structures, and many exercises with detailed solutions.\"},{\"question\":\"Which subjects are explicitly not discussed in the text?\",\"answer\":\"It provides little historical perspective on the development of quantum mechanics and does not discuss topics such as the photoelectric effect, black-body radiation, the dual nature of electrons and photons, or the Davisson and Germer experiments.\"}]","Words to the reader about how to use this textbook - Introduction to quantum mechanics for chemistry | PDF",1789975940,1635]