PHYSICS 140B: Solid State Physics
Spring 2005
- Instructor: Prof. Warren E. Pickett
- Office: Physics/Geology 427
- Phone: 530-752-0926
- E-mail: pickett@physics.ucdavis.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11-12 AM; Thursday 8:30-9:30 AM
Lecture: 9:00-9:50 MWF, 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/140B/Class.html
Syllabus and assignments will be posted at this URL.
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: Tues-Thurs 2-3 PM.
112 PG
Discussion Hour: Arranged by student demand
Topics to be covered in 140B include
(this is not an exhaustive list):
- Defects; Diffusion; Phase Transitions --> Melting.
- Thermal behavior of insulating and metallic solids.
- Dielectric theory; optical properties.
- Magnetism in solids: diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ...
- Magnetic ordering: ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism.
- Superconductivity.