1FY805 (Solid State I and particle physics)

Kursplanen - Course syllabus
This course will be given in English and Swedish on the Växjö campus. Live netcasts of the lectures will be here (open at least a quarter before the lecture). Recordings of these netcasts will also be linked below.

• Tuesday 31 August 2010 10:15-12:00, D0072 (Rydberg)
• Distance students can register by sending me an email message.

Textbook for the course: The Physics of Solids by R.J. Turton (Oxford University Press 2000)

Kursansvarig: Pieter Kuiper
In case of questions: e-mail pieter.kuiper@lnu.se, tel. 0470-708108.

Course laboratory:

• X-ray diffraction
• Dragprov (stress-strain)
• The temperature dependence of conductivity
• Semiconductor diode, light-emitting diode

Lectures:

• Tu 31 Aug: Ch. 2.1-4 - Haüy, close-packed, cubic, and covalent lattices; prob 2.1-4; video, 2
• Th 2 sep : Kap 2.5-9 - Miller indices, x-ray diffraction, Laue, AFM, allotropy; prob 2.5-10, 13, exam problem; video, 2
• Tu 7 sep: p 13-21; 64-69 - salts: Madelung-energy, modules of elasticity; prob 1.5-9
• Th 9 sep: p 22-35; 70-85; prob 3.1, 4-9; video
• Tu 14 sep: dragprovkurvor, dislokationer
• Th 16 Sep:
• Tu 21 Sep: Ch 4.1-3; 5.10 - conduction in electron gas, thermal conductivity, Hall-effect, Indistinguishable particles
• Tu 28 Sep: Ch 4.6-9; 7.7 - Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics, BE condensation
• Fermi-gas; Ch 4.10 is wrong - Fermi-sphere-model of electrical conduction; prob 4:18-20
• Thursday 30 Sep: Ch 5.1-6 - bandgap colours, intrinsic semiconductors; prob 5:1-9
• Ch 5.7-10 - doped semiconductors; prob 5:12-18
• Ch 6:1-7, 9, 12: semiconductor diode, LED
  prob 6:1-3, 5-7, 10, 19
• Ch 7:1-5, 7, 8: thermal properties
  prob 7:2-5, 7, 12, 18, 21, 22
• Kap 8:1-4, 7, 8, 10-13: magnetic materials
  uppgift 8:13, 17, 18
• The Standard Model: Particle Adventure (på Norska)
• frågestund - mejla mig med frågor

Exam

• Allowed: ruler, calculator, two pages of handwritten crib notes and Pister's fold-up crystal (assembled).
  
• Exam October 27, 2009 (in English); solutions
• Exam January 13, 2006 (in English); solutions (mix of English and Swedish).

Old pages for this course

• FyB702: ht2000, ht2004, ht2005, ht2006, ht2007.
• FY2022: ht2009