Resources for Physics 581
Dr. John S. Colton
Errata for Kittel Textbook
Here is a compilation of errors that I and others have discovered in Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th edition.
Handouts
Here are some handouts I have prepared to help clarify or add information on several selected topics.
- What you should already know.pdf
- Bravais lattices from Stokes.pdf
- Space Groups and Bravais Lattices.pttx
- Fourier series and transforms.pdf
- 8 cubes.pdf
- Elastic strains.pdf
- Wave speed in cubic crystals.pdf
- Balls and springs with two branches.pdf
- Phonon dispersion curves from Yu and Cardona.pdf
- Balls and springs with two branches - Mathematica code.nb
- Solution to two dimensional square lattice.pdf
- Inelastic phonon scattering in copper.pdf
- Entropy and Boltzmann factor handout from Physics 123.pdf
- Heat capacity of 3D phonons in Debye model.pdf
- Fermi-Dirac distribution function.pdf
- Heat capacity of 3D electron gas.pdf
- Schroedinger Equation examples.pdf
- Empty lattice approximation.pdf
- Kronig Penney model.pdf
- Central Equation.pdf
- Evolution of our band structure understanding.pdf
- Sze graphs.pdf
- solving n(T) for extrinsic materials.pdf;
Mathematica code for the handout: solving n(T) for extrinsic materials.nb - Lorentz oscillator model of the dielectric function.pdf
- 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