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Contents
13.5 Nonequilibrium Electrochemistry
595
13.6 Experimental Molecular Study of Chemical Reaction
Mechanisms
608
Part 3 The Molecular Nature of Matter
617
Chapter 14 Classical Mechanics and the Old Quantum Theory
619
14.1 Introduction
620
14.2 Classical Mechanics
621
14.3 Classical Waves
629
14.4 The Old Quantum Theory
640
Chapter 15 The Principles of Quantum Mechanics. I. De Broglie Waves and
the Schrödinger Equation
653
15.1 De Broglie Waves
654
15.2 The Schrödinger Equation
657
15.3 The Particle in a Box and the Free Particle
663
15.4 The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
674
Chapter 16 The Principles of Quantum Mechanics. II. The Postulates of
Quantum Mechanics
683
16.1 The First Two Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
684
16.2 The Third Postulate. Mathematical Operators and Mechanical
Variables
684
16.3 The Operator Corresponding to a Given Variable
688
16.4 Postulate 4 and Expectation Values
696
16.5 The Uncertainty Principle of Heisenberg
711
16.6 Postulate 5. Measurements and the Determination of the
State of a System
717
Chapter 17 The Electronic States of Atoms. I. The Hydrogen Atom
725
17.1 The Hydrogen Atom and the Central Force System
726
17.2 The Relative Schrödinger Equation. Angular
Momentum
729
17.3 The Radial Factor in the Hydrogen Atom Wave Function.
The Energy Levels of the Hydrogen Atom
736
17.4 The Orbitals of the Hydrogen-Like Atom
741
17.5 Expectation Values in the Hydrogen Atom
749
17.6 The Time-Dependent Wave Functions of the HydrogenAtom
753
17.7 The Intrinsic Angular Momentum of the Electron.
“Spin”
755
Chapter 18 The Electronic States ofAtoms. II. The Zero-OrderApproximation
for Multielectron Atoms
763
18.1 The Helium-Like Atom
764
18.2 The Indistinguishability of Electrons and the Pauli Exclusion
Principle
766
18.3 The Ground State of the Helium Atom in Zero Order
768
18.4 Excited States of the Helium Atom
772
18.5 Angular Momentum in the Helium Atom
774