Nicholas Gan Blogs

"Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn" ~Benjamin Franklin. Growing up, active learning has been  very much a part of my education journey. The process has allowed me to delve into interesting subjects. I am thankful for the many resources that have helped satisfy my curiosity about various STEM topics. And this  is the reason for creating this blog – a platform to  share  some of my learnings and thoughts about physics. My other passion being entomology and as a self taught macro photographer, I am  also sharing pictures of many tropical insects in this blog. Feel free to point out any mistakes, and I welcome your input on anything I might have missed.

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Category: The Hartree Fock Project

  • The evaluation of the integrals

    Please read the previous post: The ‘Gentle’ introduction to hartree fock first. After reading that post you should be aware that basis functions are a crucial aspect of the method and the challenge is evaluating the various integrals involved. This post seeks to give a clearer picture on the details of the gaussian basis orbitals…

  • A ‘Gentle’ Introduction to Hartree Fock

    Hartree Fock is an ab initio method used to calculate the molecular orbitals and their energies of a given molecule. This is an extremely powerful tool since the chemical and physical properties of the molecule can be inferred before the experiment is performed. In this post I hope to detail the underlying physics regarding the…