PHGN 440 / MLGN 502A - Solid State Physics
Instructor: Eric Toberer
Contact information: etoberer@mines.edu
Office Hours (Fall 2016): TBD
Class Meeting Days / Times: MWF 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. in Alderson 162
Website: http://solidstate.mines.edu
Teaching Assistant: Xiaoning Zang
Course Description from Bulletin: An elementary study of the properties of solids including crystalline structure and its determination, lattice vibrations, electrons in metals, and semiconductors.
Resources:
Kittel's Solid State Physics, 8th Edition
Vesta crystal structure viewer (freeware) http://jp-minerals.org/vesta/en/download.html
Evengy Tsymbal at U. Nebraska - Lincoln has a write-up for his Physics 927 course, http://physics.unl.edu/tsymbal/teaching/SSP-927/index.shtml
The Oxford Solid State Basics by Steven H. Simon is a nice additional text https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/oxford-solid-state-basics
Grades
Homework: 20% (4 x 5%)
Lab reports: 15% (3 x 5%)
Participation: Pre-class evaluations 5%
Participation: In-class activities and rough draft lab/homework 5%
Oral mid-term exam: 10%
Oral final exam: 15%
Final project (written): 20%
Final project (oral): 10%