LECTURE SCHEDULE PHY971

Spring 2007

L	DATE	DAY	TOPICS, READING AND GROUP ASSIGNMENTS	REMARKS
1	Jan 8	Mon	Syllabus, Ch.1 (1-20) : Drude Model	L1
2	Jan 10	Wed	Ch. 1 (Finish): Thermal Conductivity. Group Assignments: Ex.(1.4)	L2
	Jan 15	Mon	MLK Day
3	Jan 17	Wed	Ch. 2 (All): Sommerfeld Model	L3
4	Jan 22	Mon	Ch.2: Sommerfeld expansion. GA: Ex. 1.2, 1.3, 2.1.	L4
5	Jan 24	Wed	Ch. 3 (All), Ch. 4 (All): Crystal Lattices	L5
6	Jan 29	Mon	Ch.5 (All) Reciprocal Lattice GA: Ex. 5.2	L6
7	Jan 31	Wed	Ch. 6 (All) X-ray diffraction GA: Ex. 6.1, 6.2	L7
8	Feb 5	Mon	Ch.8 (All) Bloch theorem GA: Ex 8.1	L8
9	Feb 7	Wed	Ch. 9 (152-162) Weak potential	L9
10	Feb 12	Mon	No class
11	Feb 14	Wed	Midterm 1
12	Feb 19	Mon	Ch. 10 (176-184) Tight binding	L10
13	Feb 21	Wed	Ch.12 (214-233) The Semiclassical model	L11
14	Feb 26	Mon	Ch.21+Ch.22 Harmonic Crystal Reading Assignments: Ch. 15+Ch. 19	L12
15	Feb 28	Wed	Ch. 23 Phonons, Einstein Model	L13
			Spring Break
16	Mar 12	Mon	Ch. 23 Debye Model, Ch.25 lattice thermal conductivity, Umklapp processes (495-505).	L14
17	Mar 14	Wed	Ch.26 Electron-phonon scattering, Resistivity of Metals (523-526)	L15
18	Mar 19	Mon	Ch. 27 Dielectric properties of insulators. Local Field Model, Polarizability (534-547)	L16
19	Mar 21	Wed	Ch. 27 Optical Properties Ionic Crystals	L17
20	Mar 26	Mon	Review	L18
21	Mar 28	Wed	Review	L19
22	Apr 2	Mon	Midterm 2
23	Apr 4	Wed	Ch. 28 Semiconductors	L20
24	Apr 9	Mon	Optical properties of Semiconductors	L21
25	Apr 11	Wed	Wannier and Frenkel Excitons	L22
26	Apr 16	Mon	Magnetism in solids, Curie’s law, Pauli Paramagnetism, H2 molecule and Heisenberg Ch.31+Ch32	L23
27	Apr 18	Wed	Individual Projects
28	Apr 23	Mon	Individual Projects
29	Apr 25	Wed	Individual Projects

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