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Texts

The textbook for this class is:

Kittel, Charles. Introduction to Solid State Physics. 8th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. ISBN: 9780471415268.

A useful reference is:

Ashcroft, Neil W., and N. David Mermin. Solid State Physics. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. ISBN: 9780030839931.

Readings

The readings in this class are linked to specific problem sets. In the table below, the readings are listed by the problem set with which they are associated.

Course readings.
ASSIGNMENT #	READINGS
1	Kittel, chapter 1 Bravais lattice on Wikipedia Bravais lattice on Steven Dutch's Web site Many lattice structures NaCl CsCl Diamond La2CuO4 (High-Tc superconductor)
2	Kittel, chapter 2 Powder diffraction Powder diffraction image
3	Kittel, chapter 3
4	Kittel, chapter 4 Sound waves in square lattice (PDF)
5	Kittel, chapters 4 and 5 Sound waves in 1D lattice (PDF)
6	Kittel chapter 6
7	Kittel, chapters 6 and 7 3D Brillouin zones
8	Kittel, chapters 7 and 8
9	Kittel, chapter 8
10	Kittel, chapters 9 and 11

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