William Parkinson，attended California University of Pennsylvania， receiving a BS in chemistry in 1977. This was followed with stints as an environmental engineer， a construction worker， marine biologist， and high school physics and mathematics teacher. He obtained his PhD from the University of Florida's Quantum Theory Project in 1989， where he had the great fortune of rubbing elbows with the world's leading experts in computational chemistry during some of the field's most formative years. After postdoctoral positions at Odense University （now Syddansk Universitet， the University of Southern Denmark） and Texas A&M， he joined the faculty of Southeastern Louisiana University in 1991. His pastimes and passions include yard work， biking， volleyball， the beach， and Pittsburgh Steeler football.
圖書目錄
Author biography 1 Introduction 2 Motion in matter 3 Vibrating matter 3．1 Classical vibration 3．2 Planck's approach to vibration 4 Rotating matter 4．1Analysis of classical rotational motion 4．2 Bohr's approach to rotation 5 Translating matter 5．1Analysis of classical translational motion 5．2 de Broglie analysis of translational motion 6 Quantum translation 6．1 Stationary state wave functions 6．2 Unconstrained one-dimensional translation 6．3 0ne-dimensional translation in a box 6．4 Multi-dimensional translation in a box 7 Interpreting quantum mechanics 7．1 The probability density 7．2 Eigenvectors and basis sets 7．3 Projection operators 7．4 Expectation values 7．5 The uncertainty principle 8 Quantum rotation 8．1 Circular motion： the particle on a ring 8．2 Spherical motion： the particle on a sphere 9 Quantum vibration 9．1 Harmonic oscillation 9．2 Anharmonicity 10 Variational methods 10．1 Prologue 10．2 The variational principle 10．3 Determining expansion coefficients 11 Electrons in atoms 11．1 Rotational motion due to a central potential： the hydrogen atom 11．2 Properties of the hydrogen atom solutions 11．3 Electron spin 11．4 Populating many-electron atoms 11．5 Many-body wave functions 11．6 Antisymmetry 11．7 Angular momentum in many-electron atoms 12 Perturbation theory 12．1 Rayleigh Schrodinger perturbation theory 12．2 Applications of perturbation theory 12．3 The resolvent operator 12．4 Techniques for solving the sum over states equations 13 Electrons in molecules 13．1 The simplest molecular model： a one-electron diatomic 13．2 The hydrogen molecule 13．3 Practical information regarding calculations 13．4 Qualitative molecular orbital theory for homonuclear diatomics 13．5 The Huckel method Appendices A Physical constants and units B Calculus and trigonometry essentials Index 編輯手記
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