Lecture Notes from CHM 5414
10 September 1996
Wave Mechanics and Energies
The astronaut obeys classical mechanics while her companion, a 3p electron, obeys quantum mechanics. While for the purposes of this course, we need only the eigenvalues (stationary state energies) of atoms and molecules, there are interesting parallels between the several "pictures" of both classical and quantum mechanics. We explore their historical and mathematical connections below.
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