Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the historical motivation and fundamental ideas underlying quantum mechanics.
2. Calculate average values of observables using quantum mechanics.
3. Solve the Schrodinger equation for the particle-in-a-box, harmonic oscillator, and rigid rotor problems, relating to spectroscopy.
4. Describe the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, and the origin and features of potential energy surfaces.
5. Use perturbation theory and variational methods to calculate approximate energies.
6. Solve the Schrodinger equation for the hydrogen atom, explain the origins of the H atom orbitals.
7. Explain the fundamentals of electronic structure theory and apply electronic structure methods to compute energy levels.
8. Explain how quantum chemistry relates to a number of chemical concepts and properties.