Teaching

CHEM 3510 - Physical Chemistry

Topics: Gas laws, Thermodynamics, Chemical equilibrium, Chemical kinetics.
A sample syllabus is found here .
Semester: Fall
Years offered: 2024
Level: Undergraduate, intended for premedicine, B.S.Ed., B.S.I.H., and A.B. and chemistry majors.

Fundamentals of Atomic and Molecular Quantum Mechanics

(Course taught at the department of Chemistry, Iowa State University)

Topics:
a) Electron spin, addition of angular momenta, atomic and molecular term symbols.
b) Beyond single-particle problems: Perturbation theory and Variation principle, Hartree-Fock theory.
c) Electron correlation methods: Configuration Interaction (CI), Coupled Electron Pair Approximations (CEPA), Coupled-Cluster Theory (CCT).
d) Concept of chemical bonding from the perspective of quantum mechanics.
e) Strong electron correlation and the multi-configurational SCF (MCSCF) method.
Semester: Spring
Year offered: 2021
Level: Graduate