Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Reading Assignment 16

Most difficult part of the material

12.3 on covalent bonds was hard to understand, especially when they start talking about antiparallel spins etc. ALso, how the Hartree theory relates to all, I'm not 100% sure.

Most interesting part of the material

It was interesting how we are now looking at the chemistry side of things, and how the physics we have been learning about applies to things like covalent and ionic bonds. I also understood the bits on indistinguishability in the H2 atom.

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