Solid State Physics

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Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976 - Education - 826 pages
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
The Sommerfeld Theory of Metals
29
Failures of the Free Electron Model
57
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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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