| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Theoretical and experimental physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Basic academic studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Molecular Physics | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Prof. Dr. Goran Poparić | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Doc. Dr. Sava Galijaš | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 9 | Status (required/elective) | required | |||||||
| Access requirements | ||||||||||
| Aims of the course | To familiarize students with the structure of molecules and methods for describing the structure and phenomena associated with molecular systems. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Adopting basic concepts and definitions in the field of molecular physics. Introduction to the classification of types of molecular connections and modern methods for describing and calculating the basic parameters of molecular systems. Review of modern quantum mechanics for the description of molecules. Vibration and rotational motion. Rules of choice for transitions between molecular states. Principles of laser and maser operation. Possibilities of applying acquired knowledge in various fields of science and technology. Modern trends of development and interest in molecular physics. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Characteristics of molecules, size, shape and mass. Classification of interactions in molecules. Ionic bond. Ritner's model for alkaline-halogen molecules. Van der Wals's attraction. Transition-metal complexes. Covalent bond. Ion of molecule hydrogen. Molecule of hydrogen. Heitler-London's method of valent bonding. Covalent-Ion resonance. Hund-Maliken method of molecular orbitals. Variation principle. Hikel's MO theory. Slater's determinants and expected energy values for multi-atom systems. Hartree-Fock equations. Self-Compliance Field Method. Interaction configurations. Orbit hybridization. Unallocated orbitals. Application of symmetry properties for the description of molecules. General properties of molecular spectra. Rotational spectra of dual-atomic molecules. Vibration spectra of dual-atomic molecules. Vibration-rotational interaction. Electronic-vibration-rotational transitions. Structure of stripline spectra. Frank-Condon Principle. Dissociation and predisposition. Application of stripline spectra. Rotation and vibration of multi-atomic molecules. Normal oscillation mode. Symmetry and normal oscillation. Application of vibration spectroscopy. IC lasers and microwave masers. Raman spectrometry. Nuclear magnetic resonance. Electron spin resonance. Polymers. Molecular conductors and molecular electronics, memory elements. Spectroscopy of a single molecule in a solid phase. Electroluminescence and emission diodes. Future: intelligent molecular materials. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Mass spectrometry. The structure of electronic bromine states. Vibration spectra of dual-atomic molecules. Rotational-vibration spectra of cyan. Electrode scattering experiments on dual-atom and multi-atomic systems. Multifotonic Absorption of Laser Radiation on Multicomponent Molecules. Fluorescence spectroscopy of the sulfur dioxide molecule. Dissociative excitation and dissociative ionization of molecular ions. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Физика молекула, универзитетски уџбеник, Д. С. Белић, Физички факултет Универзитета у Београду , Београд, 2002. | |||||||||
| 2 | Molecular Physics and elements of Quantum Chemistry, H.Haken and H.C.Wolf, Springer-Verlag Berlin 2004 | |||||||||
| 3 | Molecular Quantum Mechanics, P.Atkins and R.Friedman, Oxford University Press 2011 | |||||||||
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| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures (theoretical processing of thematic units, research seminars), computational exercises, experimental work (experimental exercises, demonstrations). | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 15 | written examination | 20 | |||||||
| practicals | 20 | oral examination | 30 | |||||||
| papers | 15 | |||||||||
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