Welcome to Physics 581!
Fall 2020
Link to Max
- Direct link to our class on Max: //max.byu.edu/20205-phscs581/
Syllabus
- The syllabus and tentative schedule is available on Max. If you'd like a hardcopy of the syllabus you'll need to print that out yourself.
Errata for Kittel Textbook
Downloads for Homework Problems
- (no files yet)
Handouts
Here are handouts for/from various class periods, to be updated throughout the semester.
- lecture-1-handout-bravais-lattices-from-stokes.pdf
- lecture-1-What-you-should-already-know.pdf
- lecture-4-Fourier-series-and-transforms.pdf
- lecture-11-elastic-strains.pdf
- lecture-13-wave-speed-in-cubic-crystals.pdf
- lecture-15-balls-and-springs-with-two-branches.pdf
- lecture-15-phonon-dispersion-curves-from-Yu-and-Cardona.pdf
- lecture-16-balls-and-springs-with-two-branches-mathematica-code.nb
- lecture-16-solution-to-two-dimensional-square-lattice.pdf
- lecture-17-inelastic-phonon-scattering-in-copper.pdf
- lecture-18-entropy-and-boltzmann-factor-handout-from-Physics-123.pdf
- lecture-21-Heat-capacity-of-3D-phonons-in-Debye-model.pdf
- lecture-24-Heat-capacity-of-3D-electron-gas.pdf
- lecture-26-Schroedinger-Equation-examples.pdf
- lecture-28-empty-lattice-approximation.pdf
- lecture-29-Kronig-Penney-model.pdf
- lecture-30-Central-Equation.pdf
- lecture-32-evolution-of-our-band-structure-understanding.pdf
- lecture-35-sze-graphs.pdf
- lecture-36-solving-n-T-for-extrinsic-materials.pdf; Mathematica code for the handout: lecture-36-solving-n-T-for-extrinsic-materials.nb
- lecture-39-Lorentz-oscillator-model-of-the-dielectric-function.pdf
- lecture-41-polaritons-and-plasmons.pdf
Supplementary Material
- Dr. Harold Stokes' computer resources website, which includes a section for Solid State Physics. Among other things, it has 3D crystal structure models for several common structures.
- A site listing examples of materials having a wide variety of crystal structures: //homepage.univie.ac.at/michael.leitner/lattice/index.html