CHEM C215B
Quantum Chemistry: Methods
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: course 113A, C215A or Physics 115B, Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, 32B, 33A, with grades of C- or better. Recommended: knowledge of differential equations equivalent to Mathematics 134 or 135 or Physics 131 and of analytic mechanics equivalent to Physics 105A. Students entering course C215A are normally expected to take course C215B in following term. Designed for chemistry students with serious interest in quantum chemistry. Postulates and systematic development of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics; expansion theorems; wells; oscillators; angular momentum; hydrogen atom; matrix techniques; approximation methods; time dependent problems; atoms; spectroscopy; magnetic resonance; chemical bonding. May be concurrently scheduled with course C115B. S/U or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2023 - Genuinely the worst professor I have had in my entire life. Rips off notes directly from MIT OCW physics lectures, insults chemistry students for not being physics students simultaneously. Does not even understand her own final exam questions enough to have productive discussions with students about it. Clearly does not understand the concepts, and hires TAs who she clearly refuses to communicate with. I've heard from many other students this year that she does not even teach her own classes anymore...
Winter 2023 - Genuinely the worst professor I have had in my entire life. Rips off notes directly from MIT OCW physics lectures, insults chemistry students for not being physics students simultaneously. Does not even understand her own final exam questions enough to have productive discussions with students about it. Clearly does not understand the concepts, and hires TAs who she clearly refuses to communicate with. I've heard from many other students this year that she does not even teach her own classes anymore...
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Fall 2019 - This class was a bit less enjoyable than 115A/215A. The material becomes more application based and you really start digging into how to use the subject. It's kind of gross, how mathematical it can be and the class is much slower as a result. That being said it doesn't stop it from being extremely useful. You learn a lot about molecular structure and finally hit quantum chemistry in the last couple weeks, going over the basics for the popular methods you see in research (Hartree-Fock, Slater orbitals, DFT, the basis for MO theory etc.) The homework is less frequent and easier. The big thing about this class is that there is a project at the end of the quarter in which you use Gaussian to ask a science based question and write a 3-5 page paper on it.
Fall 2019 - This class was a bit less enjoyable than 115A/215A. The material becomes more application based and you really start digging into how to use the subject. It's kind of gross, how mathematical it can be and the class is much slower as a result. That being said it doesn't stop it from being extremely useful. You learn a lot about molecular structure and finally hit quantum chemistry in the last couple weeks, going over the basics for the popular methods you see in research (Hartree-Fock, Slater orbitals, DFT, the basis for MO theory etc.) The homework is less frequent and easier. The big thing about this class is that there is a project at the end of the quarter in which you use Gaussian to ask a science based question and write a 3-5 page paper on it.
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