“Physical Chemistry I” will introduce to you quantum mechanics, laws of motion governing microscopic worlds where atoms and molecules are of interest. It has been successful in revealing buried principles in the tiny world as much as classical mechanics by Isaac Newton was in explaining and predicting planetary motions. We will walk through essential concepts and principles of quantum mechanics in order to uncover the structures of atoms and molecules and apply them to understand chemical principles. This course will bring you a concrete view of chemical structures of molecules.

Introductory knowledge on classical and quantum mechanics, calculus, linear algebra, differential equation, and most of all, your heart on quantum mechanics

Evaluation: Homework & Attendance 30%
Midterm 35%
Final 35%

N. Zettili, "Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications", 2nd ed., (Wiley, 2009).
T. Engel, "Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy", 2nd ed., (Prentice Hall, 2006).
P. W. Atkins, "Physical Chemistry", 7th ed., (Oxford University Press, 2006).
R. L. Liboff, "Introductory Quantum Mechanics", 4th ed., (Addison and Wesley, 2002).
송희성, "양자역학", 2판 (교학연구사, 2009).

Week 1-2: Introduction and the history of Quantum Mechanics
Week 3: Postulates of QM (Theorems and definitions)
Week 4: Simple problems in 1D
Week 5: Harmonic Oscillator
Week 6: Angular Momentum
Week 7: Hydrogen Atom
Week 8: Mid-term Exam
Week 9: The Variation Method & Perturbation Theory
Week 10: Electron Spin and Pauli Principle
Week 11: Many electron atom
Week 12: Chemical bonding in diatomic molecules
Week 13: Polyatomic molecules
Week 14: Molecular spectroscopy & Group theory
Week 15: Final Exam

Do not miss the classes. Absence of 5 times or more will result in F.
Doing homework is essential. You should do it to your best.
You are encouraged to study together and to discuss information and concepts covered in lecture with other students. You can give "consulting" help to or receive "consulting" help from such students. However, this permissible cooperation should never involve one student having possession of a copy of all or part of work done by someone else. Should copying occur, both the student who copied work from another student and the student who gave material to be copied will automatically receive a zero for the assignment. Penalty for violation of this Code can also be extended to include failure of the course and University disciplinary action

The syllabus for this lecture including detailed lecture plan and specifics on evaluation will be given in the first class meeting. Please contact the instructor in advance by email if you have any concerns before selecting this course.