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CHEM 458Intermediate Quantum Chemistry

Faculty
Science
Offered
Fall
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1993–94

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1975–76 to 1993–94; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Overview of the formal basis of quantum theory; coupling of angular momentum; perturbation theory and the variational method; semiempirical molecular orbital methods; introduction to ab initio methods for many-electron systems.

As printed in the 1992–93 to 1993–94 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: CHEM 256

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    In the scanned calendars

    How it read in each calendar from 1975–76 to 1993–94, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

    1992–93 to 1993–94 2 calendars

    Overview of the formal basis of quantum theory; coupling of angular momentum; perturbation theory and the variational method; semiempirical molecular orbital methods; introduction to ab initio methods for many-electron systems.

    Prereq: CHEM 256

    Offered Fall · 2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

    1981–82 to 1991–92 10 calendars

    Titled Quantum Chemistry.

    The nature of electronic structure and chemical bonding in H2* and other

    simple molecules and its implications for

    theories of chemical reactions. Prereq: CHEM 355

    Offered Fall · 2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

    1975–76 to 1980–81 6 calendars

    Titled Quantum Chemistry.

    The application of quantum mechanics to chemistry with emphasis on the investigation, correlation, and elucidation of chemical bonds and reactions.

    Prereq: Chem 358

    * Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.