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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 153 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.
- 5337 Text: Introduction
to Solid State Physics 8th edition by Charles Kittel
- 6338 Text: Solid State Physics: Revised Edition, by Neil Ashcroft, N. David Mermin, and Dan 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.
- 01Apr16. See also
PHYS 3374 L28,
PHYS 3374 L29,
PHYS 3374 L30,
PHYS 3374 L31,
PHYS 3374 L32,
PHYS 3374 L33.
- 04Apr16.
- 11Apr16. See also
White Dwarfs
- 13Apr16. See also
- 15Apr16.
- 18Apr16. See also
Periodic boundary conditions.
- 20Apr16.
- 22Apr16. See also
Solids and Bandstructure
- 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 29 Jan 2018 11:59:59pm
- HW02 due Monday 5 Feb 2018 11:59:59pm
- HW03 due Monday 12 Feb 2018 11:59:59pm
- HW04 due Monday 19 Feb 2018 11:59:59pm
- HW05 due Monday 26 Feb 2018 11:59:59pm
- No homework due Monday 5 March 2018 because of the midterm exam
- No homework due Monday 12 March 2018 because of Spring Break
- No homework due Monday 19 March 2018 because of Spring Break
- HW06 due Monday 26 Mar 2018 11:59:59pm
- HW07 due Monday 2 Apr 2018 11:59:59pm
- HW08 due Monday 9 Apr 2018 11:59:59pm
- HW09 due Monday 16 Apr 2018 11:59:59pm
- HW10 due Monday 23 Apr 2018 11:59:59pm
- HW11 due Monday 30 Apr 2018 11:59:59pm
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