Quantum Mechanics for Chemistry

Seogjoo J. Jang is a Professor of Chemistry at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and is a doctoral faculty member of both the Chemistry and Physics PhD programs at the Graduate Center of CUNY. He obtained his BS (1989) and MS (1993) degrees in Chemistry from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. degree (1999) in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. He then worked as a postdoctoral associate at MIT (1999-2002) and as a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow (2003-2005) at Brookhaven National Laboratory before starting his faculty position at Queens College, CUNY in 2005. His research expertise is in quantum dynamics theories and computational modeling. In particular, he has pioneered modern theories of resonance energy transfer that are now being incorporated into theoretical analyses of experimental data on complex molecular systems and has made key contributions to understanding the role of delocalized excitons in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009) and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award (2010).

• Chapter1: Concepts and Assumptions of Quantum Mechanics.- Chapter2:  Dirac Notation and Principles of Quantum Mechanics.- Chapter3: Harmonic Oscillator and Vibrational Spectroscopy.- Chapter4: Multidimensional Systems and Separation of Variables.- Chapter5: Rotational States and Spectroscopy.- Chapter6: Hydrogen-like Systems and Spin Orbit States of an Electron.- Chapter7: Approximation Methods for Time Independent Schrödinger Equation.- Chapter8: Many Electron Systems and Atomic Spectroscopy.- Chapter9:  Polyatomic Molecules and Molecular Spectroscopy.- Chapter10: Quantum Dynamics of Pure and Mixed States.- Chapter11: Theories for Electronic Structure Calculation of Polyatomic Molecules.- Chapter12: Special Topics.