PHYS 861: Solid State Physics I

Instructor: Vittorio Celli, vc@virginia.edu, tel. 924-6573. Office hours: Monday and Thursday, 2-3 pm, Rm 311D Physics

Prerequisites: Graduate-level quantum mechanics, statistical physics, and electromagnetism; an introductory solid state course comparable to PHYS 562 is not required, if you are willing to read on your own some of the introductory material in Chapters 1 to 8 and 19 to 23 of Ashcroft and Mermin.

Textbooks: N. Ashcroft and N.D. Mermin, Solid State Physics will be the main textbook. This book is self-contained and readable, but old. For more recent material, we'll use mostly: C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics and lecture notes.

Course organization: Look in separate files for:

• Homework assignments,
• class notes and sample questions ,
• policies on course work and grades,
• class schedule and syllabus,
• books on reserve in the Physics Library.

Your comments, questions, suggestions, and inquiries about this course are welcomed.