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... atoms , at some point before the actual lattice constant of metallic sodium was reached we would have to modify our identification of the electronic levels of the array with the atomic levels of isolated sodium atoms . This would become ...
... atoms , at some point before the actual lattice constant of metallic sodium was reached we would have to modify our identification of the electronic levels of the array with the atomic levels of isolated sodium atoms . This would become ...
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... atomic levels to mean that ( 10.13 ) is small compared to unity . We assume that the integrals in the third term on the right of Eq . ( 10.12 ) are small , since they also contain the product of two atomic wave func- tions centered at ...
... atomic levels to mean that ( 10.13 ) is small compared to unity . We assume that the integrals in the third term on the right of Eq . ( 10.12 ) are small , since they also contain the product of two atomic wave func- tions centered at ...
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... atomic level 0 is non- degenerate , i.e. , an s - level , then in this approximation ( 10.12 ) reduces to a single equation giving an explicit expression for the energy of the band arising from this s - level ( generally referred to as ...
... atomic level 0 is non- degenerate , i.e. , an s - level , then in this approximation ( 10.12 ) reduces to a single equation giving an explicit expression for the energy of the band arising from this s - level ( generally referred to as ...
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The Drude Theory of Metals | 1 |
The Sommerfeld Theory of Metals | 29 |
Failures of the Free Electron Model | 57 |
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