How to build an atom

M.S.S. Brooks 

September 29, 2009


Contents 

1 Introduction 3
2 Elementary numerical techniques  5
3 Hydrogen  12
4 The real structure of the periodic table 15
5 Calculated properties of free atoms 18
6 Boundary conditions and series expansions for the Schr¨odinger equation. 27
7 Relativistic effects 32
8 Virial theorem 42
9 Programs  50


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