Assignment-2

Physical Chemistry-V, CHE301

B.Sc. Chemistry 3 Year, 5 semester
rd th

2022-2023
1. Set up the Schrodinger equation for the many electron atom and outline the factors
which prevent a direct solution of this equation.
2. Consider a trial wave function of an electron in a one-dimensional box of unit length, where
a is a parameter, and N, the normalization factor. Calculate its lowest energy by the variation
method, assuming a Hamiltonian of the form