UCSD Chemistry 185/285 Class

• The Schrodinger Equation
• Born Oppenheimer Approximation
• LCAO
• LCAO-SCF Technique
• Correlation Methods
• SCF Results for H2O
• Small Berilium Clusters

• PDF Version of all the above HF Theory

The following is now taught as a separate course by Peter Taylor (Winter):

• Lecture 1: Symmetry, Structure & Spectroscopy: Applications of Group Theory
• Lecture 2: Irreducible Representations
• Lecture 3: Symmetry and Quantum Mechanics
• Lecture 4: Notation
• Lecture 5: Angular Momentum
• Lecture 6: Transformation of Spinors
• Lecture 7: Direct Products of Irreps
• Lecture 8: Electronic Configurations
• Lecture 9: Parity

• Lecture a: Ligand Field Theory
• Lecture b: Symmetry of Force Constants
• Lecture c: Electronic Spectroscopy
• Lecture d: Symmetry and Potential Curves
• Lecture e: Orbital Correlation Diagrams