After twenty-four years in print, Don McQuarrie has now updated his landmark "Quantum Chemistry". Perhaps the biggest change in the years since the first edition is the proliferation of computational chemistry programs that calculate molecular properties. McQuarrie has presented step-by-step SCF calculations of a helium atom in Chapter 9 and a hydrogen molecule in Chapter 10, in addition to including an entire chapter on the Hartree-Fock method and post-Hartree-Fock methods for the calculation of molecular properties. The book also uses problems to encourage the use of an invaluable National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) website that lists experimental data and the results of various ab initio calculations for hundreds of molecules.
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This text is a bargain in more ways than one. --Journal of the American Chemical Society
The strong points of the book are what one might expect from McQuarrie: very clear mathematical derivations and excellent problems. --David Case, UC Davis
The strong points of the book are what one might expect from McQuarrie: very clear mathematical derivations and excellent problems. --David Case, UC Davis
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As the author of landmark chemistry books and textbooks, Donald McQuarrie's name is synonymous with excellence in chemical education. From his classic text on Statistical Mechanics to his recent quantum-first tour de force on Physical Chemistry, McQuarrie's best selling textbooks are highly acclaimed by the chemistry community. McQuarrie received his PhD from the University of Oregon, and is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis. He makes his home at The Sea Ranch in California with his wife Carole, where he continues to write.
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This review is from: Quantum Chemistry (University Science Books) (Hardcover)
I'd say this book is an excellent book at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Contrary to one of the reviewers. It's very straightforward, and written with the less gifted 'physics' student in mind. It's not the only book you'll need, but it certainly helps understand all the rest of them.Meaning that derivations are crystal clear, and difficult math is actually worked out on almost every occasion. It's got really nice coverage of the basics, which leads up to the H atom, multielectron atoms and the variety of computational methods for use with them, and the same level of coverage with molecules. And there is a chapter on time dependent solutions, which I haven't yet read. It's even got pictures of studly physicists in it. I'd totally recommend this out of all the other quantum books I've encountered. Though you will need to supplement it with other books if you go deep into quantum. And there's some development of spin, but not the full deal. Angular momentum could have been treated a bit more thoroughly as well, for a graduate class. I think there is a snippet or two about bra-ket notation. But that's best learned from a nice quantum mechanics book really, none of the chemistry oriented books cover that aspect well, because it's really rooted more in the 'physics' interpretation of quantum. I'd also point out that the books I've seen that cover the theory exhaustively are pretty short on well worked out example problems, and are kind of hard to understand sometimes. Not the case with this book.Anyways, I wouldn't have taken the time to write this if I didn't think it was money well spent. My advisor even likes it, and he got his PhD in Feynman diagrams.
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The abc of Quantum Chemistry,
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This review is from: Quantum Chemistry (Physical Chemistry Series) (Hardcover)
Unlike Atkins, this text does not oversimplify things, and unlike Levine it doesn't make them heavy going. Rather this work is probably the best introduction to Quantum Chemistry that any undergraduate can ever have. The historical background of the discoveries, the eloquent description of the methods employed, the necessary justifications to help you understand the subject and the often annoying presence of Dirac's vector notation being ommited whenever possible all contributes to boost your interest in the subject. This is the perfect launch pad for the early classics such as Pauling's 'Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry' or Murrell, Tedder and Kettle's 'Valence Theory'...
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great but easy,
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This review is from: Quantum Chemistry (Physical Chemistry Series) (Hardcover)
The best part of this book is that it is easy to understand. McQuarrie goes through every single math step and you are never too lost. Everybody I know who used this book liked this book. There is also a solution manual for ALL of the problems, I don't see it listed on Amazon. The only drawback of this book is that some of it is too easy: for instance it skips bra and ket notation entirely. So it's not really appropriate for physicists or theoretical chemists. I definitely recommend this book, and get the solution manual with it too if you can. END
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TOWARD the end of the nineteenth century, many physicists felt that all the principles of physics had been discovered and little remained but to clear up a few minor problems and to improve experimental methods in order to "investigate the next decimal place." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncertainty Principle, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Nobel Prize, Historical Background, Terms That You Should Know, Three-Dimensional Systems, Niels Bohr, World War, Max Born, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Government Printing Office, Molecules Figure, New York, Set of Successive Corrections, Book Company, Direct Relation, Equation Can Be Formulated, Hartree-Fock Calculations Give Good Agreement, Hermite's Differential Equation Can Be Solved, Molecular Orbitals Can Be Ordered According, Term Symbol Gives, The Electronic Mass Should Be Replaced, The Operators Corresponding, The Valence-Bond Theory Has New!
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TOWARD the end of the nineteenth century, many physicists felt that all the principles of physics had been discovered and little remained but to clear up a few minor problems and to improve experimental methods in order to "investigate the next decimal place." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncertainty Principle, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Nobel Prize, Historical Background, Terms That You Should Know, Three-Dimensional Systems, Niels Bohr, World War, Max Born, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Government Printing Office, Molecules Figure, New York, Set of Successive Corrections, Book Company, Direct Relation, Equation Can Be Formulated, Hartree-Fock Calculations Give Good Agreement, Hermite's Differential Equation Can Be Solved, Molecular Orbitals Can Be Ordered According, Term Symbol Gives, The Electronic Mass Should Be Replaced, The Operators Corresponding, The Valence-Bond Theory Has New!
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