Chapter 11 - Modern Physics
Chapter 12 - Atomic Structure and Lifetimes
Solid State Physics

Order: Band ; Wiedeman-Franz ; Ef problem

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Assignment in Chapter 11 of Krane's textbook:
  Question 1; Problems 1, 2, 4 (Due date: Wednesday 1 March 2006)
  Problems 3, 5, 7, 9 (Due date: Friday 3 March 2006)
  Problems 11, 13 (Due date: Monday 13 March 2006)
  Problems 15, 17, 19 (Due date: Monday 20 March 2006)
  Questions 5, 13; Problem 22 (Due date: Wednesday 22 March 2006).

Crystalline solids

Assignment in Chapter 11 of Krane's textbook:   Question 1;   Problems 1, 2, 4 (Due date: Wednesday 1 March 2006)
      Question 11-1     (cont)     Problem 11-1 (cubic)     Problem 11-2 (FCC)     Problem 11-2 (BCC)     Problem 11-4

  • Diamond cell
  • Diamond separation
  • Hexagonal close-packed structure
  • Hexagonal packing fraction

  • Madelung constant
  • Improved precision

    • Assignment in Chapter 11 of Krane's textbook:   Problems 3, 5, 7, 9 (Due date:Friday 3 March 2006).
          Problem 11-3     Problem 11-5     Problem 11-7     Problem 11-9

  • Ionic potential
  • Disassembling NaCl
  • SHO frequency
  • continued
  • Invert copper density

    • Dipole-dipole forces

  • End-on dipole
  • Positive charge
  • Negative charge
  • Side-on dipole
  • General dipole
  • Divergence of fields
  • Gauss formulation
  • 2-D projection of 4-D divergence

    • Extending the dimensionality

  • Volumes and areas
  • 2-dimensions
  • 3-dimensions
  • 1- and 4-dimensions
  • N-D Hyperspheres
  • Hypercubes
  • Wente torus

    • Assignment in Chapter 11 of Krane's textbook:   Problems 11, 13 (Due date: Monday 13 March 2006).
         Dipole energy     Problem 11-11    Problem 11-13

    Multipoles

  • Dipole field
  • Better soln to 11-11
  • 3-5 dimensions
  • Multipoles by differentiation
  • Index notation tutorial (pdf)
  • Differentiating 1/r
  • Summary

    • Van der waals fluids (See Curtis, Chapter 12)

  • 6-12 potential
  • Pauli "repulsion"
  • Ideal gas law
  • van der Waals gas law
  • vdW power?
  • Energy density
  • Spiders and the induced dipole-dipole interaction

    • Index of refraction

  • Index of refraction and polarization
  • Computed from dipole moment
  • Expansion with light frequency

    • Band Theory

  • Molecular hydrogen   [Current Position]
  • Hydrogen molecule
  • Bands with 6 atoms
  • Na with N atoms
  • Na bands
  • C, Si and Ge
  • Insulators, metals, semiconductors
  • Fermi distribution
  • Normalizing the FD distribution
  • Fermi energy and temperature
  • Numerical integration

    • Assignment in Chapter 11 of Krane's textbook:   Problems 15, 17, 19 (Due date: Monday 20 March 2006).
        Problem 11-15     Problem 11-17   (continued)   Alt. meth.     Problem 11-19

    Model for current flow

  • Current flow
  • Drift and thermal speeds
  • Fermi speeds
  • Combined motions
  • Acceleration between collisions
  • Viscous drag
  • Ohm's Law
  • Mean free path and collision time
  • Drift speed
  • Relativistic speed?
  • Magnetic fields and relativity
  • Ohm's law and thermal conductivity   [Current Position]
  • The Maxwell-Boltzmann Wiedemann-Franz Law
  • The Fermi-Dirac Wiedemann-Franz Law
  • Gravitational analogy
  • Capacitors and Resistors

    • Assignment in Chapter 11 of Krane's textbook:   Questions 5, 13;   Problem 22 (Due date: Wednesday 22 March 2006).
        Questions 11-5, 11-13     Problem 11-22

    Semiconductor devices

  • Extrinsic semiconductors
  • The junction diode
  • Types of diodes
  • Zener and tunnel diodes
  • Barrier
  • Barrier penetration
  • Tunnelling
  • Simultaneous solution
  • Reflections and transmission
  • WKB approximation
  • Examples of tunnelling
  • Ammonia maser
  • STM animation

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