Starting from the fundamental constituents of matter, this book provides a more precise idea of what an atom or a molecule is by using theories which reproduce the experimental behaviour of matter. Aware of the comprehension difficulties that quantum theory can raise in the minds of students, the book insists on the importance of the physical principles which underlie it, such as the Coulomb relationship, the particle-wave duality, the notion of indeterminism, presence probability and the virial theorem.
Author(s): Paul Blaise, Olivier Henri-Rousseau
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 515
City: Newcastle upon Tyne
Contents
Preface
Foreword
Chapter I
I-I. The Macroscopic and Microscopic Domains
I-II. Highlighting the Complexity of Atoms
I-III. Chemical Elements
I-IV. Periodic Classification of Elements (Descriptive)
I-V. Tutorial for Chapter I
Chapter II
II-I. Some Reminders About the Wave-Like Nature of Light
II-II. The Corpuscular Aspect of Light
II-IV. Tutorial for Chapter II
Chapter III
III-I. The Davisson and Germer Experiment
III-II. The Jönsson Experiment (1961)
III-III. The Möllenstedt Experiment (1955)
III-IV. The Meaning of the Square of the Amplitude
III-V. Tutorial for Chapter III
Chapter IV
IV-I. The Franck-Hertz Experiment
IV-II. The Emission Spectrum of Atomic Hydrogen
IV-III. The Absorption Spectrum Of Atomic Hydrogen
IV-IV. Generalization to Hydrogenic Atoms
IV-V. Tutorial for Chapter IV
Chapter V
V-I. Bohr’s Model of Hydrogenic Atoms
V-II. Perfecting Bohr’s Model
V-III. Tutorial for Chapter V
Chapter VI
VI-I. Theoretical Explanation of Energy Quantization
VI-II. Schrödinger’s Model of the Hydrogen Atom
VI-III. Extension of the Model to Polyelectronic Atoms
VI-IV. Tutorial for Chapter VI
Chapter VII
VII-I. The Chemical Bond According to Lewis
VII-II. The Chemical Bond according to Molecular Orbital (MO) Theory
VII-III. Theories Dealing with Molecular Geometry
VII-IV. Extended Systems and the Hückel Lcao Method
VII-V. Tutorial for Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
VIII-I. Electrocyclic Reactions
VIII-II. Woodward-Hoffmann’s Selection Rules
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Index
