Periodic Crystals, Reciprocal Lattice and Diffraction, Brillouin Zone, Bloch Theorem, Free and Bound Electron in a Solid, Effective Mass, Energy Bands, Fermi Level and Surface, Electronic Conduction, Drude Model, Sommerfeld Model, Phonons, Thermal Properties, Specific Heat, Debye Model, Nearly Free Electron Approximation, Magnetism.

Faculty: Materials Science and Engineering
|Undergraduate Studies
Pre-required courses

(114036 - Statistical and Thermal Physics and 115203 - Quantum Physics 1) or (124400 - Quantum Chemistry 1 and 124413 - Statistical Thermodynamics)

Course with no extra credit

116217 - Solid State Physics 127427 - Solid State For Chemists (extended)