INSTRUCTOR: Rongying Jin

Office: 229-B Nicholson Hall
Email:
Telephone: (225) 578-0028
Office Hours: M-W-F, 1:30-2:30 PM, or by appointment

SYLLABUS: PDF Format

LECTURE:

• M-W-F, 2:40-3:30 PM - 106 Nicholson Hall

LECTURE NOTES  ⇔  ASSIGNMENTS  ⇔  ANNOUCEMENTS

REQUIRED TEXT:
N. Ashcroft/N. D. Mermin, "Solid State Physics"

HOMEWORK:

• Assignments will be due once a week.

EXAMS:
We will have one in-class midterm exam, and one final exam which will be either a take-home or in-class final.

GRADING:

• Homework = 40%
• Midterm Exam= 30%
• Final Exam = 30%

OUTLINE:
The course schedule below is approximate and will be adjusted as the course proceeds, especially if we get behind or ahead of schedule:

WEEK	DATES	NOTES	CHAPTERS
1	Aug 24-28		4: Crystal Lattices; Crystal Growth
2	Aug 31-Sept 4		5: Reciprocal Lattice; 6: X-Ray Diffraction
3	Sept 9-11	Holiday - Sept. 7 - Labor Day	1: Drude Theory
4	Sept 14-18		2: Sommerfeld; 3: Failures of Free Electron Model
5	Sept 21-25		8: Bloch's Theorem
6	Sept. 28	Holiday - Sept. 30-Oct. 2 - Fall	9: Nearly Free Electrons
7	Oct 5-9		10: Tight binding; 12: Semiclassical Dynamics
8	Oct 12-16	Friday - Midterm Exam	14: Measuring Fermi Surface
9	Oct 19-23		22: Classical Harmonic Crystal
10	Oct 26-30		23: Quantum Crystal; 26: Phonons
11	Nov 2-6		28: Homogeneous Semicond.
12	Nov 9-13		29: Inhom. Semicond.
13	Nov 16-20		31: Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism
14	Nov 23-25	Holiday - Thanksgiving (Thur/Fri)	32: Magnetic Interactions; 33: Magnetic Ordering
15	Nov 30-Dec 4	End of Classes	34: Superconductivity
16	Dec 7-11	Final Exam

 

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