Instructor: Prof. Warren E. Pickett

Office: Physics/Geology 427

Phone: 530-752-0926

E-mail: pickett@physics.ucdavis.edu

Office Hours: Monday 9-10 AM; Wednesday 11-12 AM

Lecture: 10:30-11:50 TR, 140 PG

Required Text: The Physics and Chemistry of Materials by J. I. Gersten and F. W. Smith

URL for this course: http://yclept.ucdavis.edu/course/140A/Class.html

Assignments : Regular homework will be assigned, graded, and returned. Quizzes may pop up at any time, especially when you have been asked to "read the next chapter" (or half of it, perhaps). Exams will be based largely on homework problems, and on material discussed in class.

Grading : 25% for homework, quizzes, class participation; 25% for each of two midterms; 25% for final exam. Late homework will not be accepted; the lowest homework score will be discarded. Midterm exams will be scheduled roughly 1/3 and 2/3 of the way through the quarter.

TA: Yung-Shin Sun: yssun@ucdavis.edu Office hours: Wednesday 4-5PM, Friday 10-11AM. 112 PG

Discussion Hour: Fridays, 12:00-1:00, 158 RO

• Classification of solids: ionic, covalent, metallic, ...
• Periodicity. Crystal structures. Reciprocal latices.
• Vibrational properties of crystals.
• Behavior of electrons in crystals. Bands, Fermi surfaces. Excitations.
• Thermal behavior of insulating and metallic solids.
• Dielectric theory; optical properties.
• Magnetism in solids: diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ...
• Magnetic ordering: ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism.
• Superconductivity.