Teaching & Tutorials

CHM 305, The Quantum World – Fall 2023

Lecture	Notes	Slides	Problem Sets
1 – Waves & Particles		Lecture 1 Slides
2 – The Classical Wave Equation	Lecture 2 Notes	Lecture 2 Slides
3 – The Schrodinger Equation	Lecture 3 Notes	Lecture 3 Slides	Problem Set 1
4 – Free and Confined Particles	Lecture 4 Notes	Lecture 4 Slides
5 – The Postulates, part 1	Lecture 5 Notes	Lecture 5 Slides	Problem Set 2
6 – The Postulates, part 2	Lecture 6 Notes	Lecture 6 Slides
7 – Quantum Tunneling	Lecture 7 Notes	Lecture 7 Slides	Problem Set 3
8 – Uncertainty	Lecture 8 Notes	Lecture 8 Slides
9 – The Harmonic Oscillator	Lecture 9 Notes	Lecture 9 Slides	Problem Set 4
10 – Angular Momentum	Lecture 10 Notes	Lecture 10 Slides
11 – Spectroscopy	Lecture 11 Notes	Lecture 11 Slides	Problem Set 5
Some Useful Integrals and Identities

 

CHM 502, Advanced Quantum Chemistry – Spring 2024

1 – Postulates	2 – Time Evolution	3 – Model Quantum Systems
4 – Two-Level Systems	5 – Time-Independent Perturbation Theory	6 – Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory
7 – Spectroscopy	8 – Selection Rules	9 – Electronic Transitions
10 – Density Matrices	11 – Optical Bloch Equations	12 – Nonlinear Spectroscopy
	13 – Classical and Quantum Light

CHM 504, Molecular Spectroscopy – Spring 2022

Rotational Spectroscopy

Diatomic Vibrational Spectroscopy

Polyatomic Molecules and Symmetry

 

Other Tutorial Notes

• The Weichman Lab style guide
• Cheatsheet for working with Fabry-Pérot optical cavities
• Simulating optical cavity transmission spectra
• Running basic ab initio optimization and frequency quantum chemistry calculations in Gaussian
• Running rovibrational calculations in PGOPHER

Feel free to use and redistribute these notes provided you cite Prof. Marissa Weichman and this page as your source. Please get in touch if you find any mistakes.