The principal physical processes by which chemicals move, concentrate, and dissipate. This course is fashioned to illustrate how inorganic and polymer materials chemistry can be rationally used to synthesize superconductors, metals, semiconductors, ceramics, elastomers, thermoplastics, thermosets and polymer liquid crystals, with properties than can be tailored for applications in a range of advanced technologies. Coverage is fairly broad and is organized to crosscut many aspects of the field. This course introduces the postulates of quantum mechanics to develop the fundamental framework of quantum theory. A number of exactly soluble problems are treated in detail as examples.
Perturbation theory is introduced in the context of understanding many body problems.
Various applications to molecular spectroscopy and dynamics are covered in detail. In this continuation of CHM 225Y , more advanced topics in thermodynamics such as non-ideal effects are introduced. Statistical mechanics and its application to chemical problems are introduced. Reaction dynamics are analyzed from a fundamental perspective. The weekly laboratory demonstrates aspects of transition metal chemistry.