Mathematical preliminaries
       
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Lecture 1 -- Introduction and Origins of atoms and molecules
Lecture 2 -- Physical principles underlying chemistry
Lecture 3 -- Analysis of key experiments revealing the structure of the atoms; Stoichiometry
Lecture 4 -- The classical world view, its failure, and the emergence of the quantum view
Lecture 5 -- Electron diffraction, many paths, and the postulates of quantum mechanics
Lecture 6 -- Energy levels and probabilities: The Schroedinger equation and the PIB model.
Lecture 7 -- Particle in a two- and three-dimensional box and several particles in a box.
Lecture 8 -- The quantum hydrogen atom.
Lecture 9 -- Multi-electron atoms.
Lecture 10 -- Classical theory of chemical bonding I: Energies and introduction to Lewis structures.
Lecture 11 -- Classical chemical bonding II: Ionic and covalent bonding, Lewis structures, VSEPR theory.
Lecture 12 -- Molecular geometry, coordinates, and dipole moments.
Lecture 13 -- Molecular quantum mechanics I: The H2+ ion and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.