Course Identification

Chemistry Module: Spectroscopy
20256121

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Dr. Matan Menahem
N/A

Course Schedule and Location

2025
First Semester
Tuesday, 13:00 - 16:00, Science Teaching Lab 1
24/12/2024
29/04/2025

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Science Teaching (non thesis MSc Track): Lecture; Obligatory; Regular; 4.00 points

Comments

לתלמידי שני השנתונים

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

40

Language of Instruction

Hebrew

Attendance and participation

Obligatory

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

20%
80%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

N/A
N/A
-
N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

2

Syllabus

  1. Brief review of basics of quantum mechanics - Harmonic oscillator, particle in the box, transition dipole moments, symmetry.
  2. Electromagnetic radiation and interaction - Absorption, emission, line width
  3. Experimental methods - Key components in optical systems
  4. Molecular symmetry - point groups and the importance of symmetry
  5. Rotational spectroscopy - Rotational IR, millimeter and microwave spectroscopy
  6. Vibrational spectroscopy - IR, Raman, selection rules, anharmonicity
  7. Electronic spectroscopy - Atomic spectroscopy, diatomic and polyatomic spectroscopy 
  8. Other spectroscopies - Photoelectron spectroscopy, x-ray fluorescence

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

  1. Describe the basic concepts behind the interaction of light with matter.
  2. Discuss the relation between quantum mechanics, symmetry of the molecular systems and spectroscopy.
  3. Relate molecular properties to their spectra.
  4. Aanalyze vibrational and vibronic spectra.

Reading List

  1. Modern Spectroscopy, J. M. Hollas, John Wiley & Sons
  2. Optics, E. Hecht
  3. Molecular Vibrations, Wilson, Decius and Cross, Dover Publications

Website

N/A