This note explains the
following topics: Atoms, Molecules, and Ions, Electronic Structure and Periodic
Properties of Elements, Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry, Advanced
Theories of Bonding, Composition of Substances and Solutions, Stoichiometry of
Chemical Reactions, Gases, Thermochemistry, Liquids and Solids, solutions and
Colloids, Thermodynamics, Fundamental Equilibrium Concepts, Acid-Base Equilibria,
Equilibria of Other Reaction Classes, Electrochemistry, Kinetics, Representative
Metals, Metalloids, and Nonmetals, Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry,
Nuclear Chemistry.
Author(s): Klaus
Theopold, Richard Langley, Edward J. Neth, Paul Flowers
Recent evolutions in nanosciences and
nanotechnologies provide strong arguments to support the opportunity and
importance of the topics approached in this book, the fundamental and
applicative aspects related to molecular interactions being of large interest in
both research and innovative environments. We expect this book to have a strong
impact at various education and research training levels, for young and
experienced researchers from both academia and industry.
These
lecture notes have been prepared to give an introduction into the foundations of
atomic and molecular physics with an emphasis on the interaction of these atomic systems
with light, and in more general, with electromagnetic fields. Topics covered
includes: Wave-corpuscular duality of photons and massive particles, Angular
momentum in quantum mechanics, Atomic spectra, simple models of atoms, Spin and
the fine structure, Many-body problems, systems of identical particles,
Molecular structure and spectra, Bose Einstein Condensation, Elements of
coherent atom field interactions, Atoms in Strong Fields, Photons, A quantum
paradox and the experiments.