- August 25: Discussion of
syllabus; rules of engagement. Review of quantum mechanics;
free atom energies; variational principle; diatomic bonding
Reading
assignment: Kittel, Chapter 3.
- August 27: Homopolar
covalent bonding; sp3
bond
- August 29: Heteropolar
covalent bonding; ionic bonding; van der
Waals bonding; metallic binding
Reading assignment:
Kittel, Chapter 1
- September 1: No class Labor Day holiday
- September 3: Crystallography;
Bravais lattices
- September 5: No lecture
- September 8,10,12: No
lecture
- September 15,17,19: Regular
lecture time
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