Lec 6 | MIT 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science, Fall 2008

[FirstGradeCalculus]

As a new student of chemistry, I find her lectures to be exceptional.

[ephipi]

The only real negative comment I would make about these lectures is this following: Every time a slide is shown which enhances and illustrates, with graphics and mathematics the part of the lectures she's on. Stay on the slide. Continually Zooming back and forth to her pointing to the slide she's emphasising, brakes continuity. It's destructive interference.

[ephipi]

@materiasacra who wrote:

"This is horribly inefficient"

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I disagree. Thank you MIT for all of the lectures provided. Materiasacra, perhaps you could provide your own videos explaning QED in a way to your liking. I would be most interested in a thorough presentation of th Bessel functions. looking forward to your video.

[nap00084]

wOw..What a beautiful woman..!!!

[materiasacra]

This is horribly inefficient. Most of the lecture is about labeling things. In the same amount of time she could have explicitly solved the Schroedinger equation, having everything fall into place by itself. In that way the students would actually have the wavefunctions in terms of spherical Bessel functions and spherical harmonics. No ambiguity how m=+-1 is related to px and py. No handwaving energy argument to justify l <= n-1. No mystery about what exactly is plotted as the radial density...

[arsenelupin123]

@materiasacra

It's a chemisty class, not a physics class. Nobody would have followed her if she did all you said in this amount of time, even in an introductory physics class.

[gomunkul]

i think its really great to learn this intro into the Schrodinger equation meaning, didn't learned that in my university.

too bad she talks too much not to the point.

in out basic chemistry, we talked for 2 lectures about the Bohr model and how its significant.

and she barely mentions it.. but like i said she talks about the wave function much more.

hard to tell with way is best, i glad i seen them both :)