Roi Baer
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The Chaim Weizmann Institute of Chemistry, and the Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics,
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Chapters 1 & 2: Problems with classical mechanics; Standing waves

Wilhelm Wien: Studied Blackbody radiation (1896)

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Max Planck: Explained blackbody radiation (1900)
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bulletBrowse the internet for:
bulletWaves
bulletSuperposition of waves
bulletStanding waves on a string
Phillip Lenard: Discovered the Photoelectric effect (1894)
Albert Einstein: Explained the photoelectric effect (1905)
 Chapters 3 & 4: Moving waves

Prince Louis de Broglie: In 1923, while still a graduate student at the University of Paris, published a note Comptes rendus (see English translation): free electrons have a wavy phenomenon associated with them.
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bulletBrowse the internet for:
bulletReflection and refraction using waves
bulletMonochromatic waves
bulletA monochromatic wave
bulletSuperpositions of 2 monochromatic waves
bulletde-Broglie waves:
bulletElectrons are waves-   LEED Experiment
bulletAtoms are waves: Time of flight
bulletPPT presentation: Particle-wave phenomena

The cathode ray tube. Next, J. J. Thomson, G. P. Thomson and C. J. Davisson, JJ discovered the electron and its charge to mass ratio. His son, concurrent with Davisson showed that electrons have wavy character,
Chapter 5: Free particle

Werner Heisenberg, found that "The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa" (1927).
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bulletThe Gaussian wavepacket
bulletConsructing:
bullet Wavepackets
bullet Wavepackets that move
bulletGroup velocity movies 
bulletWavepackets: linear dispersion
bulletWavepackets: quadratic dispersion
bulletWavepackets: Particle-wave duality
bulletWavepackets: 2 slit experiment
bulletThe shadow of an obstacle
Chapter 6 & 7: Discrete energy levels; Evolution in time 17/6/2009  
Chapter 8 & 9 : Mathematics and Axioms of Quantum Chemistry

P. A. M Dirac Developed Quantum Mechanical Theory
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Chapter 10 & 11: Particle in a box and Harmonic Oscillator 17/6/2009
bulletParticle in a box
bulletClassical Harmonic
bulletHarmonic Oscillator 
bulletHarmonic Integrator
bulletMorse Oscillator

Chapter 12, 13 14: The Hydrogen atom, perturbation theory and many electron atom

Erwin Schrödinger, explained the spectrum of the hydrogen atom through his "wave mechanics" (1926).
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bullet Stern Gerlach experiment

Spin guys. Otto Stern, George Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit.

Chapter 15 & 16:  The Variational Principle

 

 
 17/6/2009 Pioneers of Quantum Chemistry:

Fritz London and Walter Heitler: The first understanding of the chemical bond

Vladimir A. Fock, Douglas R. Hartree, John A. Pople: Developed wave-function methods for treating many electron atoms

Walter Kohn: Developer of the Density functional theory

Chapter 17-18,  Polyatomic molecules, Huckel MO theory

 

 

 

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Erich Huckel, 1896-1980. Also famous for his work with Debye on electrolytes

Most of these applets, VRML demos and movies were conceived and written by Dr. Guy Ashkenazi and Prof. Ronnie Kosloff