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Physics 5337 - Introduction to Solid State Physics
Physics 6338 - Condensed Matter Physics
Course Information
- Lecturer:
Professor Randall J. Scalise
- Lecture meeting times and place: MWF 11:00-11:50AM in 157 Fondren Science Building
- Office hours: after lecture MTWTh 12:30-2:30PM and by appointment in room 107.
- Contact:
- Call or leave a message at 768-2504, or
- Leave a note in the Physics Department Office - 102 Fondren Science, or
- send me e-mail:
<scalise@smu.edu>
- Exam Dates: Open book, open notes, open Mathematica, closed internet.
- Grading:
- 60% homework
- 17.5% midterm exam
- 17.5% final exam
- 5% reading quizzes
A student who is absent from class without valid reason for two
consecutive weeks will be administratively dropped from the class by
the instructor.
- Course Objectives: By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- understand crystal lattices and the reciprocal lattice, the free-electron model of metals,
and lattice vibrations -- phonons
- understand Bragg diffraction and crystal binding, ionic and covalent
- calculate the density of states and apply thermodynamics to crystals
- calculate energy bands in solids using quantum mechanics
- understand superconductivity, paramagnetism and ferromagnetism
- solve problems in all the areas above
- Course Format: Class time will be used for lecturing, not for problem solving.
- Expectations: Students are expected to attend all lectures
and to be able to answer questions posed by the lecturer in class.
Students should not use lecture time to do anything other than
listen attentively and take notes. Homework assignments should be
started well in advance of the due date.
- 5337 Text: Introduction
to Solid State Physics 8th edition by Charles Kittel
- 6338 Text: Solid State Physics by Neil Ashcroft and N. David Mermin
(not the unauthorized revised version with Wei)
- Lecture Notes:
- 15Jan16. See also
3D Crystal Viewer,
Crystal system,
Unit cells.
- 20Jan16. See also
Bravais lattice,
Point group,
Space group,
17 Wallpaper patterns.
- 22Jan16. See also
CsCl,
other structures,
Miller indices.
- 25Jan16. See also
real Fourier series.
- 27Jan16. See also
complex Fourier series.
- 29Jan16. See also
Reciprocal lattice,
Contravariant and covariant components.
- 01Feb16. See also
Ewald sphere,
Brillouin zones.
- 03Feb16. See also
Structure factor.
- 05Feb16. See also
Single-slit diffraction,
Multiple-slit diffraction.
- 08Feb16. See also
van der Waals force,
London dispersion force.
- 10Feb16. See also
- 12Feb16. See also
cgs units,
Statcoulomb (esu).
- 15Feb16. See also
Madelung constant.
- 17Feb16. See also
Bulk modulus.
- 19Feb16. See also
Exchange interaction,
Spin-Statisitcs Theorem I,
Spin-Statisitcs Theorem II.
- 22Feb16. See also
Metallic hydrogen,
Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion.
- 24Feb16. See also
Phonon,
Aliasing.
- 26Feb16. See also
- 29Feb16. See also
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album cover
- 02Mar16. See also
William Allison's notes.
- 14Mar16. See also
Dispersion relations and mass for diatomic basis
- 16Mar16. See also
Quantum harmonic oscillator,
Einstein solid,
Boltzmann distribution,
Partition function,
Ice bomb (the reason it is so difficult to perform experiments at constant volume).
- 18Mar16. See also
Density of states.
- 21Mar16.
- 23Mar16. See also
Gaussian integrals.
- 28Mar16. See also
Particle in a box.
- 30Mar16: video, audio only.
- 01Apr16. See also
PHYS 3374 L28,
PHYS 3374 L29,
PHYS 3374 L30,
video, audio only.
-
PHYS 3374 L31,
PHYS 3374 L32,
PHYS 3374 L33,
video, audio only.
- 04Apr16.
- 11Apr16. See also
White Dwarfs
- 13Apr16. See also
- 15Apr16.
- 18Apr16. See also
Periodic boundary conditions.
- 20Apr16.
- 22Apr16. See also
Solids and Bandstructure
- Kronig-Penney model [video, audio only].
- 25Apr16. See also
- 27Apr16. Superfluidity. See also
- 29Apr16. Superconductivity. See also
- 02May16. Superconductivity continued. See also
- Finding Brillouin zones: A visual guide
- Brillouin Zones - U. of Cambridge
- Syllabus
- Students with disabilities, medically excused absences, absences in general
-
Official University Calendar
- Homework: Due dates are strictly enforced. 50% if late; 0%
once the solutions are posted. You may work together, but the work
that you turn in should be unique. Identical work will receive a grade
that is divided among all parties. It is possible to find answers to
some homework problems on the internet; do not do this. The point,
after all, is not to fool me into thinking that you have learned
physics, but rather actually to learn some physics.
- HW01 due Monday 27 January 2020 at 11:00:00am
- HW02 due Monday 3 February 2020 at 11:00:00am
- HW03 due Monday 10 February 2020 at 11:00:00am
- HW04 due Monday 17 February 2020 at 11:00:00am
- HW05 due Monday 24 February 2020 at 11:00:00am
- HW06 due Monday 2 March 2020 at 11:00:00am
- No homework due Monday 9 March 2020 because of the midterm exam on the 11th
- No homework due Monday 16 March 2020 because of Spring Break
- No homework due Monday 23 March 2020 because of Spring Break
- HW07 due Monday 30 March 2020 at 11:00:00am
- HW08 due Monday 6 April 2020 at 11:00:00am
- HW09 due Monday 13 April 2020 at 11:00:00am
- HW10 due Monday 20 April 2020 at 11:00:00am
- HW11 due Friday 1 May 2020 at 11:00:00am
- No homework due Monday 4 May 2020 because of the final exam on the 6th
- Homework Solutions
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