Uploaded March 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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When we consider behavior of multi-electron systems we are faced with equations and mathematics that quickly become overwhelming. In 1929 Douglass Hartree described a way to approximate these interactions that made computation quantum chemistry practical.

The playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL193BC0532FE7B02C

Part b: youtu.be/QludPcDLe1I

Comments, including questions, suggestions and constructive criticism are always welcome.

At 0:34 the subscript of the second Laplacian should be 2, not 1. It refers to the second electron.