Solid State Physics I
Phys 725 — Fall 2016 |
Department of Physics & Astronomy |
Instructor | Dr. Kevin Beach |
Office: | 206 Lewis Hall |
Email: | kbeach@olemiss.edu |
Website: | https://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~kbeach |
More details provided in the syllabus.
Midterm Exam
For preparation, I am providing the midterm exam from Fall 2015 and the practice exam that I gave to students. The form of our in-class midterm (on Tuesday, October 4 at 11:00) will be similar.
Now that you have written the midterm, here are links to the test and solutions:
Final Exam
The final exam is scheduled for Tuesday, December 8 at 12:00. The exam is closed-book. It covers material from the first nine chapters of Kittel. This includes the material tested on the midterm exam (crystal structure, xray diffraction, phonons) as well as the subsequent material on electronic band structure.
Below are two final exams from a course I previously taught. The content is slightly different, but they’re a useful study guide. I’ve also included a link to last year’s Phys 725 final.
Lectures
- Introduction — pdf
- Symmetry breaking and ordered phases — pdf
- Solids, crystallinity, and Bravais lattices — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 1
- Scattering and experimental determination of crystal structures – pdf — see Kittel Ch. 2
- Cohesion and bonding — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 3, pp. 47–-70
- Complex structures — pdf — see Kittel Chs. 19 and 22
- Lattice vibrations — pdf — see Kittel Chs. 4 and 5
- Free electron gas — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 6, pp. 131–147
- Models of nearly-free and tightly-bound electrons — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 7; Ch. 9, pp. 221–230
- Tight-binding — pdf
- Ab initio band structure calculations — see Kittel Ch. 9, pp. 232–239
- Semi-classical dynamics of band electrons — see Kittel Ch. 6, pp. 147–153; Ch. 8, pp. 191–198
- Experimental probes of the Fermi surface — see Kittel Ch. 9, pp. 242–251
- Semiconductors — pdf – see Kittel Ch. 8, pp. 200–213