CHM 3312 Physical Chemistry II Spring 1997
Instructor: Chris Parr BE3.506 883-2485 parr@utdallas.edu
http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~parr/
Meeting: MWF 9-9:50 a.m. in BE2.526 (except 1/20 and 3/10 - 3/16)
Text: P. Atkins, Physical Chemistry, 5th ed., W.H. Freeman, 1994.
Grade: 60% 3 hour exams (no makeups; lowest grade substituted by final)
30% Final Exam
10% Homework
Scale: 100/A/85/B+/80/B/75/C+/70/C/65/D+/60/D/55/F
Schedule: Week Ch Topic
1/13 1 11 Quantum Theory
1/22 2 12 Quantum Mechanics
1/29 3 13 Atomic Structure and Spectra
2/5 4 14 Molecular Structure 2/21, Hour Exam 1
2/14 5 15 Symmetry
2/21 6 16 Rotational and Vibrational Spectroscopy
2/28 7 17 Electronic Spectroscopy
3/7 8 18 Magnetic Resonance Spectra 3/21, Hour Exam 2
3/24 9 19 Statistical Mechanics
3/31 10 20 Statistical Thermodynamics
4/7 11 27 Molecular Reaction Dynamics, 27.4 27.9
26 Chain Reactions, 26.1 26.3
4/14 12 23 Macromolecules 4/21, Hour Exam 3
4/23 13 28 Surface Chemistry
4/30 14 Review
8:00 am, Wednesday, May 7th, Final Exam
Please notify the instructor within the first week if an Hour Exam falls in coincidence with
another course taken by several students of Physical Chemistry; a reasonable effort will be made to
avoid such conflicts. Worked solutions to all the text's exercises and problems are available as a
consequence, those may be assigned as interesting to try but will not be collected and graded. New
homework questions will be assigned, collected, and graded; solutions will be posted on the course's
webpage. Numerical answers are to be in SI unless otherwise specified. Finally, this material is some
of the deepest you'll encounter in Chemistry, so ask questions; nothing gives an instructor more
positive feedback (or satisfaction, for that matter) than an intelligent question.
Last modified 10 May 1997.