This treatment of molecular and atomic physics is primarily meant as a textbook. It is intended for both chemists and physicists. ·It can be read without much knowledge of quantum mechanics or mathematics, since all such details are explained-. It has developed through a series of lectures at the Royal Institute of Technology. The content is to about 50 % theoretical and to 50 % experimental. The reason why the authors, who are experimentalists, went into theory is the following. When we during the beginning of the 1970's measured photo­ electron spectra of organic molecules, it appeared to be impossible to understand them by use of available theoretical calculations. To handle hydrocarbons we ( together with C. Fridh ) constructed in 1972 a purely empirical procedure, SPINDO [1] which has proved to be useful, but the extension to molecules with hetero­ atoms appeared to be difficult. One of us ( L.A.) proposed then another purely ~~E!E!~~! EE2~~~~E~ ( Hydrogenic Atoms in Molecules, HAM/1, unpublished), in which the Fock matrix elements f5..y were parametrized using Slater's shielding concept. The self-repulsion was compensated by a term "-1". The
~~2~~_~ff2E~, HAM/2 [2] , started from the total energy E:. of the molecule. The atomic parts of L used the Slater shielding constants, and the bond parts of E. were taken from SPINDO. The Fock matrix elements Fpv were then obtained from E in a conventional way.

A. The LCAO model: "LCAO".- 1. Molecular Orbitals ??.- 2. The LCAO formalism.- 3. The normalization and orthogonality of orbitals.- 4. How to interpret the print-out from a calculation.- 5. The charge in ? ?.- 6. The charges on atoms and in bonds.- 7. The idempotency of density matrices.- B. Hartree-Fock total energy: "HF".- 1. The Hamilton operator.- 2. The wavefunctions in Hartree-Fock theory.- 3. The total energy in Hartree-Fock theory.- 4. The total energy in LCAO Hartree-Fock theory.- 5. Self-repulsion.- C. Density functional theory: "Density functional theory".- 1. Correlation.- 2. Correlation energy.- 3. Exact energy expression.- 4. Exchange-correlation energy.- 5. Density functional theory: Kohn-Sham orbitals.- 6. Introducing Kohn-Sham orbitals.- 7. Introducing LCAO.- 8. Pair-correlation energies.- 9. Semiempirical methods.- 10. Comment on semiempirical theories.- 11. Conventional CI method to handle correlation.- 12. Proof for Gunnarsson-Lundqvist Exc.- D. Total energy of molecules and atoms: "HAM".- 1. Rearrangement of the total energy expression.- 2. Shielding efficiencies ??? in the one-center terms.- 3. The one-center energies in a molecule.- 4. Further study of the shielding efficiencies.- E. Atoms: "Atoms".- 1. The simple atom.- 2. The energies of the spin-configurations.- 3. Comments on the shielding efficiencies.- 4. Previous work on shielding efficiencies.- 5. Total energies of atoms and atomic ions in HAM/3.- 6. The multiplet split in atomic spectroscopy.- 7. The average state.- 8. Energies of terms - energies of average states.- 9. The physical meaning of the parameters.- 10. The semiempirical methods HAM/3 and HAM/4.- F. Molecules: "Molecules".- 1. Interpretation of the energy expression for a molecule.- 2. Localdipoles.- 3. The final expression for the total energy.- 4. The parametrization of HAM/3.- G. Solving the Schrödinger equation: "SCF".- 1. Variational calculus.- 2. Deduction of Roothaan's equations.- 3. The Fock matrix elements.- 4. Solving the Roothaan equations.- 5. Some useful relations for the eigenvalue.- 6. Comparison with the Hartree-Fock method.- 7. The eigenvalue ?? in Hartree-Fock and HAM.- 8. Molecules with a small HOMO-LUMO gap.- H. Ionization and photoelectron spectroscopy: "PES".- 1. Calculation of ionization energy in the HAM model.- 2. Treatment of ionization energies in Hartree-Fock.- 3. Calculation of ionization energies in ab-initio work.- 4. Experimental methods for study of ionization.- 5. Ionization of molecules: some results.- 6. Further studies.- I. Excitation and UV spectroscopy: "UV".- 1. Calculation of excitation energy in the HAM model.- 2. A primitive CI method to find singlet-triplet splitting.- 3. Calculation of intensitites.- 4. Semiempirical methods to calculate excitation.- 5. Rydberg transitions.- 6. Calculation of excitation energies in ab-initio work.- 7. Experimental methods for study of excitation.- 8. Excitation of molecules: some results.- 9. Degenerate excited configurations will interact: CI.- 10. Excitation of linear molecules.- J. Negative ions and electron affinities: "EA".- 1. Calculation of electron affinities in the HAM model.- 2. Experimental methods for determination of EA's.- 3. Electron affinities of molecules: some results.- 4. The relation between the PES, UV and EA results.- 5. Other calculations of electron affinities.- 6. ?* orbitals.- K. Studies of 1s electrons: "ESCA".- 1. Calculation of 1s ionization energies in the HAM model.- 2. Experimental methods in ESCA.- 3. ESCA energies:some results.- 4. Excitation of 1s electrons, studied in electron impact.- 5. Excitation of 1s electrons, studied spectroscopically.- L. Shake up in PES and EA: "Shake up".- 1. Shake up in PES.- 2. Calculation of the PES shake-up energy.- 3. Shake ups in PES: some results.- 4. Discussion of calculations of shake up in PES.- 5. Shake up in EA.- 6. Shake ups in EA in small molecules: some results.- 7. The UV spectrum of the naphthalene anion.- 8. Shake ups in EA in larger molecules.- M. Total energy: "Total energy".- 1. The total energy of a molecule.- 2. Heat of formation.- 3. Check of the transition state method.- 4. Doubly charged ions.- N. Dipole moments: "Dipole moment".- 1. Calculation of dipole moment.- 2. Dipole moment of HCN.- O. Chemical reactions: "Reactions".- 1. Can a HAM model be used?.- 2. Dissociation of cyclobutane.- 3. The internal rotation of ethylene.