Welcome to the website for Physics 140A-
Introduction to Solid State Physics

Winter, 2016

Instructor: Chuck Fadley

Office hours: Tues, Thurs, 1:30-2:30 PM, Physics 241

E-mail: fadley@physics.ucdavis.edu

TA: Tanat Kissikov

Office hours: Mon, Wed, 9:00-10:00 AM, Physics 284

E-mail: tkissikov@ucdavis.edu

Course website: http://140a.physics.ucdavis.edu

 

 

Syllabus and First Reading/Problem Assignments

2016 Reading/Problem Assignments through the quarter:

see below with Problem Sets, and first Lecture Slide in Each Set
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Tour of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory--Saturday, 5 March :
Overview and Directions
The Group Photo

At the National Center for Electron Microscopy

Lunch at the Advanced Light Source

After the final, still smiling

----------Supplementary Reading----------

Derivation of the van der Waals Interaction (from Kittel, SSP, 4th Edition)

Derivation of the Debye-Waller Factor (from Kittel, SSP, 4th Edition)

Derivation of Phonon Thermal Conductivity (from Kittel, SSP, 4th Edition)

----------Slides and Videos Used in Lecture----------

Slide Set 1: Solid State Physics Intro./
Atomic Structure and Bonding

Slide Set 2: Crystal Structure and Symmetry

Slide Set 3: Scattering and Diffraction

Slide Set 4: Lattice vibrations, phonons, heat capacity

Slide Set 5: Electronic structure, heat capacity

----------Problem Assignments: in order covered in lecture----------

Problem Set 1

Problem Set 2

Problem Set 3

Problem Set 4

Problem Set 5

----------Answers to Assigned Problems: in order covered in lecture----------

 

----------This Year's Exams and Answers---------

Midterm Coverage and Review Topics

Midterm Answers

Final Coverage and Review Topics

Final Answers