CHEM 3520 - Exam Information

Spring 2011

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CHEM 3520-EXAM 1

Note below that the exam dates are tentative. The material coverage is also tentative, and should only serve as a partial guide. Additional material and chapters may be included on the exam. You are responsible for all material within a chapter, all of the material in the notes, and all material in class, unless told otherwise. Details provided in the classroom take precedence over this listing.

EXAM 1 Friday, Feb. 11 - POSTPONED to Friday, Feb. 18

Times:

10:00-10:50 a.m. - Part 1

12:00-12:50 p.m. - Part 2

 

 

Tentative material that could be on the exam includes:

Chapter 8:

What are some of the failures of classical physics?

wave-particular duality

de Broglie relation

wavefunction

Schrodinger equation

Born interpretation

probability density, probability amplitude

spherical polar coordinates

operator, eigenvalues, eigenfunction

linear combination

commutator

expectation value

What is/what is not an eigenfunction or eigenvalue?

normalization of a wavefunction

 

Chapter 9 (through 2/7/11):

translational motion

particle in a box - infinite square well, boundary conditions, quantum numbers

zero point energy

energy levels

 

 

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