Solid State Physics

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Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976 - Solid-state physics - 826 pages
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This book provides an introduction to the field of solid state physics for undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.

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Contents

The Drude Theory of Metals
1
Failures of the Free Electron Model
57
The facecentered cubic elements
72
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Solid State Physics
Neil W. Ashcroft,N. David Mermin
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Solid state physics
Neil W. Ashcroft,N. David Mermin
Snippet view - 1976

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alkali atomic band structure Bloch boundary condition Bragg plane Bravais lattice Brillouin zone calculation carrier densities Chapter coefficients collisions conduction band conduction electrons contribution crystal momentum crystal structure density of levels dependence described determined direction Drude effect electric field electron gas electron-electron electronic levels energy gap equilibrium example Fermi energy Fermi surface Figure free electron theory frequency given Hamiltonian hexagonal holes impurity independent electron approximation insulators integral interaction ionic crystals lattice planes lattice point linear magnetic field metals motion nearly free electron neutron normal modes Note number of electrons one-electron levels orbits periodic potential perpendicular phonon Phys plane waves primitive cell primitive vectors problem properties quantum reciprocal lattice vector region result scattering Schrodinger equation semiclassical semiclassical equations semiclassical model semiconductors simple cubic solid solution specific heat sphere spin superconducting symmetry temperature term thermal tight-binding valence vanishes velocity wave functions wave vector zero

About the author (1976)

N. David Mermin is Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University. He has received the Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society and the Klopsteg Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Mermin has written on quantum foundational issues for several decades, and is known for the clarity and wit of his scientific writings. Among his other books are Solid State Physics (with N. W. Ashcroft, Thomson Learning 1976), Boojums all the Way Through (Cambridge University Press 1990), and It's about Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity (Princeton University Press 2005).

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QR code for Solid State Physics
TitleSolid State Physics
HRW international editions
Holt-Saunders International Editions
Saunders College Publishing international series
Science : physics
AuthorsNeil W. Ashcroft, N. David Mermin
Edition33, illustrated, reprint
PublisherHolt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized25 Apr 2011
ISBN0030839939, 9780030839931
Length826 pages
  
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