Physics 463—Solid State Physics, Winter 2008
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Physics 463—Solid-State Physics, Winter2008
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Calendar at a Glance

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Problem Sets

Problem set 1(corrected version), (old version) Due: Thursday January 17, by 5pm (office or mailbox)
Problem set 2 Due: Thursday, January 31, in class
Problem set 3&4 Due: Friday, February 22, by 5pm
Problem set 5 Due: Tuesday, March 25, in class

Supplemental Material

Max von Laue's Nobel Lecture, a very interesting and illuminating historic read from the dawn of modern solid-state physics.
William Bragg's Nobel Lecture

Fourier Series and Transforms, a very brief primer.

Detailed Calendar: Class Schedule and Suggested Reading

Color coded: Suggested Readings in green, Lectures in Purple, Office hours in red, deadlines in blue.

January, 2008
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Introduction to Introduction to Solid-State Physics
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Intro to Periodic Structures and X-ray Diffraction

lattice translation vectors, basis and crystal structure, primitive and conventional unit cell,...

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading: Ch 1.
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Lattice types, symmetry, Lattice Planes and Reciprocal Lattice

Suggested Reading: Ch 1,2.

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14

Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

X-ray diffraction and Structure Factor

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading: Ch 2.
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17

Lecture 8:30-10:00

X-ray diffraction and Structure Factor Continued

Suggested Reading: Ch2

Problem set #1 due!
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Crystal Binding

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading: Ch 3, up to analysis of elastic strains.
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Finish Crystall Binding, Introduction to lattice vibrations

Suggested Reading: Ch 4
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Normal modes of crystal vibrations. Dispersion relations. Optical and Acoustic modes, group and phase velocity.

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading: Ch 4
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Quantization of Lattice Vibrations, phonons, determination of phonon dispersion through inelastic neutron scattering

Suggested Reading: Ch 4

Problem set #2 due!

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February, 2008
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Thermal Properties of Phonons, occupation, heat capacity, etc.

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading: Ch 5.
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Thermal Properties of Phonons contd. Debye and Einstein Models

Suggested Reading: Ch 5.
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Free electron Fermi Gas

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading: Ch 6.
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Suggested Reading:
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading:
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Suggested Reading:
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Problem set #3-4 due!
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25 (vacation)
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27 (vacation)
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29 (vacation)

#this covers coherence in more mathematical detail as well as some other specialized topics. We will not explicitly cover this material, except conceptually, or possibly as a homework problem.

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March, 2008
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading:
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Midterm1 8:30-10:00
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading:
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Suggested Reading:
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading:
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Suggested Reading:
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading:

Problem set #5 due!
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Suggested Reading:
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April, 2008
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading:
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Midterm 2 8:30-10:00
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading:
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Suggested Reading:
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Office hours 1:30-2:30
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Lecture 8:30-10:00

Office hours 10:00-11:00

Suggested Reading:
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Final Exam 8:00-10:00
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