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#1 - Due Sat, Sep 2 Answers: P1.3 | P1.10 | P1.11 | P1.12 | P1.16 | Math. Challenge
#2 - Due Fri, Sep 8 Answers: P2.1 | P2.3 | P2.5 | P2.6 | P2.7 | P2.8 | P2.9 | P2.11 | P2.13 | P2.17 | P2.21 | P2.23 | Extra
#3 - Due Fri, Sep 15 Answers: P2.24 | P2.25 | P2.27 | P2.29 | P2.30
#4 - Due Fri, Sep 22 Answers: P4.3 | P4.5 | P4.6 modified | P4.7 | P4.8 modified | P4.9 | P4.10 | P4.12 | Lowe 2.8 | Lowe 2.11
#5 - Due Fri, Sep 29 Answers: P4.23 | P5.2
#6 - Due Wed, Oct 25 Answers: P5.6 | P5.7 | P6.1 | P6.3 | P6.5 | P6.8 | P6.10 | P6.17 | P6.18 | P6.20
#7 - Due Wed, Nov 1 Answers: P7.2 | P7.4 | P7.14 | P7.17 | P7.21 | P7.22 | P7.24 | P7.25 | P7.26 | P7.27
#8 - Due Mon, Nov 6 (optional assignment - the problems illustrate the kind of calculations & thinking you should be able to do)
Answers (or hints): P8.1, P8.3, P8.4, P8.7 | P8.13
#9 - Due Wed, Nov 22 (any five problems) and Tue, Nov 28 (all remaining problems) Answers: P9.1 | P9.3 | P9.4 | P9.9 | P9.10 | P9.13 | P9.14 | P9.15 | P9.16
#10 - Due Tue, Nov 28 Answers: P10.2 | P10.3 | P10.4 | P10.5 | P10.6 | P10.8 | P10.9 | P10.11 | P10.30 | P10.31
#11 - Not collected (optional assignment - the problems illustrate the kind of calculations & thinking you should be able to do) Answers (or hints): selected problems
#1 - Aug 29 - Prof. Nicholas Wheeler's Intro to Mathematica 4
#2 - Sep 5 - Apply Boltzmann to spectroscopic transitions (NMR, rot, vib, elect)
#3 - Sep 12 - no conference (Alan in SF)
#4 - Sep 19 - Particle in a 1-D Box
#5 - Sep 26 - Numerical solutions to particle in a 1-D Box - standard (2 infinite walls) | step potential | double-well potential | original notebook
#6 - Oct 3 - Grading PS #4
#7 - Oct 10 - Exam #1 - in class
#8 - Oct 17 - no conference (Fall Break)
#9 - Oct 24 - derive l commutator, explore N2 oscillator
#10 - Oct 31 - study hall (work on PS #7)
#11 - Nov 7 - Exam #2 - in class
#12 - Nov 14 - derive energy formulas for Slater determinant wave functions
#13 - Nov 21 - no conference
#14 - Nov 28 - Performing Huckel MO calculations w/ Mathematica (presentation | notebook)
#1 - Take home (due Oct 14, Sat) | answers (notebook) | answers (pdf)
#2 - In class | answers (pdf)
#2 - Take home (due Nov 11, Sat) | answer (notebook) | answers (pdf)
#3 - In class | answers (pdf)
(last updated 1/15/06)