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Topic 1 Videos: Bonding
Video 1.1: Covalent Bonds
Video 1.2: Dipole Interactions
Topic 2 Videos: Crystal Structures
Video 2.1: Lattice & Basis
Video 2.2: Crystal Structure Types
Video 2.3: Slices
Video 2.4: Miller Indices
Topic 3 Videos: Introduction to Diffraction
Video 3.0: An Introduction to Fourier Series
Video 3.1: The Diffraction Equation
Video 3.2: Scattering Density
Video 3.3: Exploring the Diffraction Equation when ΔK=G
Video 3.4: Structure Factor
Video 3.5: Centered Lattices
Topic 4 Videos: Advanced Elastic Scattering
Video 4.1: Ewald Sphere
Video 4.2: Powder Diffraction
Video 4.3: Thin Film Diffraction - Omega Rocking Curves
Video 4.4: Thin Film Diffraction - Phi Scans
Topic 5 Videos: Phonon Dispersion
Video 5.1: Intro to Phonons
Video 5.2: Nyquist Group Velocity
Video 5.3: Phonon Quantization
Video 5.4: Phonon Density of States
Topic 6 Videos: Phonon Transport
Video 6.1: Planck Distribution and Heat Capacity with the Einstein Approximation
Video 6.2: Heat Capacity With the Debye Model
Video 6.3: Thermal Conductivity
Video 6.4: Phonon Phonon Scattering
Video 6.5: Thermal Conductivity and Temperatre Dependence
Topic 7 Videos: Inelastic Scattering
Video 7.1: Inelastic Scattering Theory
Topic 8 Videos: Free Electron Model
Video 8.1: Free Electron Model
Video 8.2: Density of States and the Fermi Dirac Distribution
Video 8.3: Heat Capacity
Video 8.4: Screening
Topic 9 Videos: Bands in a Weak Potential
Video 9.1: Bloch Theorem and the Central Equation
Video 9.2: Vanishing Potential and Brillouin Zones
Video 9.3: Band Structure of Metals and Insulators
Topic 10 Videos: Intrinsic Semiconductors
Video 10.1: Thermal and Optical Excitations in Intrinsic Semiconductors
Video 10.2: Effective Mass and Holes
Video 10.3: Fermi level