Dr. Aniruddha Chakraborty

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Weekly Lecture Hours: 3
Subject Code: CY242
Examination Duration (Hours): 3
Quizzes (Hours):1+1
Relative Weightage: End Term Exam: 60% Quizzes: 40 %.
Credits: 3
Semester: 3rd
Instructor: Dr. Aniruddha Chakraborty
Pre-Requisite: Chemistry or Physics common course
Venue: Lecture Hall 1
Timings: Monday (2.00-2.50), Wednesday (12.00-12.50), Friday: (12.00-12.50).
Objective: To provide a theoretical knowledge of fundamental chemistry and to make scientific background stronger for engineering discipline students.

Unit 1-3: Quantum Mechanics (Lecture Hours - 12):

Wave-particle duality, Schrödinger wave equation, Operators, Probability density, Matrix elements of operators and expectation values, One-dimensional problems in quantum mechanics - particle in a box, potential well, potential barrier and tunnelling.

Unit 4-6: Structure and bonding (Lecture Hours - 14):

Hydrogen atom, Helium atom, Hydrogen molecule, Structure and Bonding, Nature of the chemical bond, Donor-Acceptor complexes, Charge transfer, Energy transfer, Conductance through DNA, Molecular electronic circuits, Single molecule transistors, Single molecule logic gates.

Unit 7-10: Spectroscopic Techniques (Lecture Hours - 11):

Born-Oppenheimer Approximation, Molecular spectroscopy, Selection Rules, Vibrational and Rotational motion, Electronic Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy.

Suggested Books:

1. Introductory Quantum Mechanics, R. L. Liboff (4th edition) Addison-Wesley (2002). 

2. Modern Quantum Chemistry, Attila Szabo, Dover (2000).

3. Molecular Spectroscopy, Jeanne L. McHale, Prentice Hall (1998). 



Suggested Books:

1. Introductory Quantum Mechanics, R. L. Liboff (4th edition) Addison-Wesley (2002).

2. Modern Quantum Chemistry, Attila Szabo, Dover (2000).

3. Molecular Spectroscopy, Jeanne L. McHale, Prentice Hall (1998).