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CHM 357 Introductory Quantum Chemistry and Statistical Thermodynamics

300 levelSciences10 topics

CHM 357 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Failure of classical physics and wave mechanics
  2. Bohr's theory of the atom
  3. Heisenberg uncertainty principle
  4. The Schrodinger equation
  5. Particle in a box and simple systems
  6. Atomic term symbols
  7. Molecular orbital theory
  8. The Boltzmann distribution
  9. Partition functions
  10. Colligative properties and thermodynamic functions

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Failure of classical physics and wave mechanics

This topic explains why classical physics could not account for key microscopic phenomena and how wave mechanics emerged to describe matter at atomic scale. For exams, you must master the specific failures of classical ideas, the meaning of wave–particle duality, and the basic wave-mechanical principles used to describe particles such as electrons.

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