And no, it's not because organic chemistry has destroyed what's left of my sanity (yet).
Essentially...
A professor said yes! A professor said yes! Wooooot!
It's a tentative yes, but, a professor said yes! I might actually be working in research this summer! It's my first time, bear with me...
Now I need to send some sort of reply to the professor. And somehow go back to studying organic...but with a much lighter heart. Whee!
(Poor linear algebra, on the back burner...)
[Edited]
Now that I think of it:
Does anyone know of a good textbook on relativity? Something along the lines of relativistic effects on quantum mechanical systems? And understandable to an undergraduate, non-physics major? My first-year physics texts are no good.
A good, solid, introductory quantum mechanical text would be nice, too. I've heard all sorts of authors (Griffiths, McQuarrie, Levine, Metiu, Liboff, Phillips...) but I have no idea which one is actually useful. For self-study that is. And it should have nice proofs in it - no magic.
I forsee a shopping spree in the near future...
(Yes, I am so studying organic. *Cough*.)
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Echiral goes Crazy.
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My prof used McQuarrie, and it was alright. I think it's either Levine or Atkins that's supposed to be really thorough.
I'm guessing your research won't be organic?
Thanks for the tip, I'll go look in the bookstore...
Frankly, I don't think I'll survive a term of research in organic. Even if organic chemists get to make all sorts of shiny things.
I promise it's fun! Synthetic chemistry is the only job I've found that never gets boring. But you seem like more of a physical/analytical type.
i liked kutzelnigg to start with. but i don't think they translated it.
Griffiths is good for some self-study, but he tends to relegate some important and inciteful proofs to the excercises. Liboff is similar.
McQuarrie's Q.Chem book is found pretty verbatim in the McQuarrie & Simons P.Chem book. So, I'd rather invest in that and get the Stat Therm/Chem Therm intro. that's good as a foundation. I have no experience with Atkins, but it looks big and colorful compared to McQuarrie&Simons, so it depends on what you're looking for.
Relativistic effects in quantum mechanical systems? Liboff would probably be your best bet. Shankar was very thorough, as well, but expect a lot of Dirac notation in his book.
I can't remember the one monograph I read that introdcued me to relativistic effects in the electronic structure of transition metal complexes.
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