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Atkins Physical Chemistry Eighth Edition
Chapter 8 Quantum Theory:
Introduction and Principles
Copyright 2006 by Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula
Peter Atkins Julio de Paula
Topics
Blackbody radiation
Limitation of classical mechanics for atomic systems
Wave-particle duality
Photoelectric effect
Schrdinger equation
Free particle wavefunction
Operators
Uncertainty principle
Figure 1.1
Blackbody radiation
Energy distribution
of blackbody radiation
Prediction of classical
mechanics agrees with
observation at low
frequencies (high wavelengths) but fails
at high frequencies (small wavelengths)
Blackbody radiation
Plancks distribution
Heat capacities of solids
Classical mechanics cannot accurately predict the temperature dependence of heat capacities of solids
Atomic and molecular spectra are composed of discrete lines
Photoelectric effect
Classical theory
Electrons are emitted at all frequencies, provided the light intensity is high
Kinetic energy of the electrons increases with intensity of light
Experiment
# of emitted electrons depend on the light intensity but not their kinetic energy
No electrons emitted unless the frequency of the light exceeds a threshold value
Kinetic energy of the ejected electrons depend on the frequency of the incident light
Electrons are emitted even at low intensities if the frequency exceeds a threshold value
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/imgmod2/pelec.gif
Davisson-Germer Experiment: established wave nature of electrons
The experiment (1927) involved scattering of electrons from a single crystal of Ni
Diffraction patters exhibited wave behavior
Landmark experiment that showed wave nature of matter
Confirmed the prediction of de Broglie three years ago
Source: google images
Wave-particle duality
Behavior of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero
Formation of Bose-Einstein condensates
400 nK 200 nK 50 nK
http://cua.mit.edu/ketterle_group/Animation_folder/BEC_phase_transition.htm
Wavefunctions describing systems with high kinetic energies (high momenta) are highly oscillatory
Real and imaginary part of a plane wave describing motion of a free particle
Square of the wave function denotes probability of finding the particle in a given region
Volume element for integration of the wave function in three dimensions, d=dxdydz
Wave function is an amplitude function: it may have positive an negative amplitudes but the square of the wave function, ||2 (probability) is always a positive quantity.
Volume element in spherical polar coordinates d=dxdydz=r2drsindd
Acceptable wave function must be finite, single-valued and continuous
The state of a quantum mechanical system completely specified by its wave function . The square of the wave function, (x)*(x) give the probability of finding the particle at a location x.
For every measurable property, there exists a corresponding operator. An experiment in the lab to measure the value of the property is equivalent to operating the corresponding operator on the wave function of the system.
In any single measurement of the observable corresponding to an operator, the only value that ever will be measured is the eigen value of the operator
The average value of an observable is the expectation value of its operator:
= * d
Quantum mechanical postulates