[CHM 330] Tomorrow's Exam

[Andrew J. Pounds]

I know some of you are stressing out over the exam tomorrow.  It is the 
first time we have hit material that is completely foreign to you.  
Trust me -- I remember those feeling.  Hopefully this e-mail will help 
reduce some of the stress.

You will see problems that are similar to the worksheet problems that we 
did in class.  As far as the multiple choice goes, I have stated over 
and over again that you should think about the big picture and what 
these model potentials represent physically, what differentiates them 
from each other, and what interesting phenomena they introduce that 
helps explain the quantum world.

I introduced terms like operators, observables, expectation values, 
normalization, orthogonality, stationary state, degeneracy, eigenvalue, 
and eigenfunctions. While I may not ask you to do any complicated 
calculus involving these (you don't have time in a 50 min), I could 
certainly ask about definitions and relations between these in the 
multiple choice section.

Try to relax remembering that I really do have your knowledge and 
success in mind; get some sleep tonight, and see you in the morning...

-- 
*/Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D./*
/Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science/
/Director of the Computational Science Program/
/Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627/
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