Atomic structure /

• Main Author: Whelan, Colm T. (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael [Καλιφόρνια] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2018.
• Series: IOP concise physics.
• Subjects: Άτομα-Δομή

A knowledge of atomic theory should be an essential part of every physicist's and chemist's toolkit. This book provides an introduction to the basic ideas that govern our understanding of microscopic matter, and the essential features of atomic structure and spectra are presented in a dire...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Bohr atom
• 1.1. Spectral lines
• 1.2. Center of mass
• 1.3. Atomic units
• 1.4. Isotopes and exotic atoms
• 2. Quantum mechanics
• 2.1. Formalism
• 2.2. Spin
• 2.3. Wave mechanics
• 3. One-electron atoms
• 3.1. Two-body systems
• 3.2. Schr�odinger equation with a central potential
• 4. Multi-electron atoms and the periodic table
• 4.1. Identical particles
• 4.2. The periodic table
• 4.3. Approximate methods
• 5. The self-consistent field approach
• 5.1. The Hartree method
• 5.2. Slater determinants
• 5.3. The Hartree-Fock approximation
• Appendices. A. Vector spaces
• B. Some more mathematical results
• C. Variational methods
• D. Angular momentum.