Time:	MWF 11:45 - 12:35 (with a rescheduling of the October 1st class)
Location:	322 Jordan
Professor:	Dan Gezelter phone: 631-7595 office: 258 Stepan Chemistry e-mail: gezelter@nd.edu Office hours: By appointment
Web page:	www.nd.edu/~gezelter/Teaching/649
Texts:	Introductory Quantum Mechanics, by Richard L. Liboff, (QC 174.12 .L52 2003) Quantum Chemistry, by Donald A. McQuarrie, (QD 462 .M4 1983) Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, by Gordon Baym, (QC 174.1.B35) If you buy only one book for this course, the Liboff text is probably the most useful. There is also a list of other helpful books for this class that may be found in the chemistry & physics library.
Syllabus:	www.nd.edu/~gezelter/Teaching/649/syllabus.html
Grade:	Problem Sets (bi-weekly):   30% In-class Midterm:   20% Open-book take-home Final:   30% Computational project:   10% Class Participation & attendance:   10%
Other:	Quantum Mechanics deals with some intellectually challenging material. The only way to learn the subject is to actually do the problems on your own. Do not use Google as your second brain. After you have made an honest and painful individual attempt at solving a problem, you may confer with your classmates or with me. However, you must write up the solutions to the problems on your own. Solutions which are incorrect, but which have good written explanations of why each step was carried out, will be given higher scores than those which do not. The take-home final must be done completely independently. The computational projects will require some amount of coding. ANY computer language may be used (including Matlab, Python, etc.) If you need access to a computer on which to do these projects, please let me know. These projects may be done in pairs. You may email me at any time with questions.
Problem Sets:	I'll be posting the problem sets on the problem set web page each week.