Quantum Foundations for Chemistry
A 16-module path through quantum foundations for chemistry, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Wave-Particle Duality
- The de Broglie Relation
- The Wavefunction and Born Interpretation
- Conditions on Acceptable Wavefunctions
- Normalization of the Wavefunction
- The Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation
- The Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation
- Stationary States and Energy
- Operators and Observables
- Eigenvalue Equations and Quantization
- Hermitian Operators
- Orthonormality of Eigenfunctions
- Expectation Values
- Superposition of States
- The Measurement Postulate
- Commutators and the Uncertainty Principle