PHYSICS 133: INTRO COND MAT PHYS, Spring Quarter 2015
Lectures: (47675) Tuesday, Thursday 2:00 PM-3:20 AM, PSCB 220
Instructor:
Jing Xia (xia.jing@uci.edu), assistant professor
Office: Rowland Hall 210-F
Phone: 949-824-5580
Website: http://physics.uci.edu/~xia/X-lab/Teaching.html
Office hours: by appointment
Textbooks:
“Introduction to Solid State Physics”, 8th Edition, by Kittel (Wiley).
Grading: Homework will be assigned weekly on Tuesday and will be due Tuesday the next week before the lecture. Homework will constitute 50% of the grade. Midterm (1 hour) will be 20%. Final exam (1 hour) will be 30%.
Topics to be covered:
I will try to cover Kittel chapter 1-12:
Electron gas, periodic lattice, phonon, semiconductor, metal, (maybe) superconductivity and magnetism.
Exam:
Exams are closed book and closed-notes. A letter (A4) sized formula sheet and a calculator (w/o internet connection or mobile Mathematica app) are allowed.
One-hour midterm exam in class on Thursday May 7th.
One-hour final exam in class on Thursday June 4th.
Homework
(Homework will be assigned on-line each week after lectures. It is due during Thursday’s lecture the week after.)
Tentative Plan for this class (may be modified during the quarter):
Week 1: Free electron gas and specific heat (Chapter 6)
Homework due in class on April 9: HW 1.pdf.
Week 2: Introduction to Crystal structures, Lattice and reciprocal lattice (Chapter 1, 2)
Homework due in class on April 16: HW 2.pdf
Week 3: Elasticity of crystal, lattice vibration (phonon), Chapter 3, 4
Homework due in class on April 23: HW 3.pdf
Week 4: Phonon and its thermal property Chapter 4, 5
Homework due in class on April 30: HW 4.pdf
Week 5: Bloch wave, Energy bands, Chapter 7, 8
Homework due in class on May 7th: HW 5.pdf
Week 6: semiconductor, Chapter 8, Midterm
no Homework
Week 7: Metal Chapter 9
Homework due in class on May 21th: HW 6.pdf
Week 8: (dia- and para-) Magnetism, Chapter 11
Homework due in class on May 28th, HW 7.pdf
Week 9: Ferromagnetism and other magnetic phases, Chapter 12
Week 10: Final Project (exam) Final Project.pdf
Please email your report (word or .pdf format) to xia.jing@uci.edu by that deadline. Do include your name, email address and student ID in the header of your report.
Academic honesty:
You are encouraged to discuss the homework, but the work you turn in must be your own. No discussion is allowed in exams. Violations of any kind will be dealt with seriously.
