[CHM 330] Tomorrow's Exam
Andrew J. Pounds
pounds_aj at mercer.edu
Tue Apr 26 16:10:41 EDT 2022
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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