These are alternative projects (authored by J. Sethna) for the first 
quarter of Introduction to Solid State Physics.  These projects may be done 
instead of a materials review.  To count as class projects for this course 
they should be done as well-documented mathematica notebooks.  That is, the 
solutions should be more than a set of undocumented equations: the accompanying 
text should be sufficient to fully describe the formalism and physics of the 
problem.  

	If you want to do one of these projects, instead of a materials
review project, then please send me an email (jarrell@physics.uc.edu).