The Bell That Rings Light: A Primer in Quantum Mechanics and Chemical Bonding Book

Preface     ix
Rutherford, Bohr and Balmer     1
Some Important Experiments     7
Early Quantum Mechanics: The Atom     15
New Assumptions     19
Zetetics     23
Classical Waves     31
Particle-in-a-Box     39
Exploring the Analogy     45
Dr. Schrodinger, I Presume?     49
The Quantum Numbers     53
Pleased to Meet you, Dr. Schur     59
The Spherical Harmonics     65
More French Mathematicians     71
Reprise: The Quantum Numbers     77
Chemistry and Bonding     81
Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion     89
The Shape of an Orbital     93
Molecular Orbital Theory     103
Valence Bond Theory     117
Other Kinds of Bonding     123
Case Study: Dye Molecules     129
Afterword     135
Index     137