Undergraduate Course: CP Symmetry and Structure (CHPH09001)
Course Outline
| School | School of Chemistry | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Course type | Standard | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) | 
Credits | 10 | 
 
| Home subject area | Chemical Physics | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
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Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | The course consists of lectures in Structure and Bonding, and Symmetry and Structure. The course forms part of the prescribed third year curriculum for students on degrees in Chemical Physics. | 
 
 
Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Full Year, Available to all students (SV1) 
  
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WebCT enabled:  No | 
Quota:  None | 
 
	
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| King's Buildings | Lecture |  | 1-22 |  11:10 - 12:00 |  |  |  |  |  | King's Buildings | Lecture |  | 1-22 |  |  |  09:00 - 10:50 |  |  |  | King's Buildings | Lecture |  | 1-22 |  |  |  11:10 - 13:00 |  |  |  | King's Buildings | Lecture |  | 1-22 |  09:00 - 10:50 |  |  |  |  |  | King's Buildings | Lecture |  | 1-22 |  |  |  |  |  11:10 - 12:00 |  | King's Buildings | Lecture |  | 1-22 |  |  |  |  12:10 - 13:00 |  |  | King's Buildings | Lecture |  | 1-22 |  |  |  |  |  16:10 - 17:00 |  | King's Buildings | Lecture |  | 1-22 |  |  |  |  |  14:00 - 15:50 |  | King's Buildings | Lecture |  | 1-22 |  |  |  |  |  09:00 - 10:50 |  
| First Class | 
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	| Additional information | 
	Lectures and tutorials as arranged. | 
 
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) |  | 1:30 |  |  |  | Resit Exam Diet (August) |  | 1:30 |  |  |  
 
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
At the end of this course students will be able to: 
- Assign molecules to point groups and use symmetry properties to predict vibrational spectra and describe atomic and molecular orbitals 
- Understand the basis of spectroscopic selection rules  
- Predict the structure of the ground state, electronically excited states and the ionic states of small molecules using molecular orbital theory 
- Use the Huckel Approximation to describe the electronic structure of large molecules, extend it to the band structure of solids and rationalise their electronic conductivity and spectroscopic properties. | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
| 1 exam of 1.5 h. |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
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| Keywords | CPSymStruc | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Andrew Alexander 
Tel: (0131 6)50 4741 
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Course secretary | Mrs Moira Wilson 
Tel: (0131 6)50 4754 
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