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PHYSICS 4510
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Atomic Structure
ATOMIC & MOLECULAR STRUCTURE On-Line Text  
      Look at Ch. 3,  Hydrogen Atom in Spherical Coords.
The Aufbau Principle      
The discovery of the electron spin
      by S.A. Goudsmit
Electron Spin
      Summary on slides
The Helium Atom  
       Notation may be a problem, but principles are plain
The Helium Atom (Shown in class)
       Nicely done, but uses advanced notation.
Hund's Rules 
       Brief heuristic explanation
The magnetic dipole moment of an orbiting charged particle  
      Summary on slide.
Lecture Notes for Physical Chemistry I   
      Look at  Ch 21, p. 8,9
Overview of Hartree-Fock (HF) Approximation
      Summary of principles
The quantum mechanics of a helium atom
      A student project to find energy levels by approximation
Total Angular Momentum and The Spin Orbit Interaction
      Summary slides (good explanation)
Zeeman Effect  
      Nice set of summary slides.