Physics 377: Condensed Matter Physics

The College of Wooster

Spring 2007

• Instructor
  • Todd McAlpine
  • Taylor Hall 106
  • 330-263-2586 or x2586
  • TMcAlpine@Wooster.edu
  
  
• Lecture
  • Taylor Hall 109C
  • Tuesday & Thursday
  • 9:30-10:50 a.m.
  
  
• Required Texts
  • Martin T. Dove's Structure and Dynamics
  • Richard A. L. Jones' Soft Condensed Matter
  On reserve in Timken Science Library


• Recommended Texts on Reserve in Timken Science Library
  • James F. Annett's Superconductivity, Superfluids, and Condensates
  • John Singleton's Band Theory and Electronic Properties of Solids
  • Charles Kittel's Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th Edition
  • Neil W. Ashcroft's and N. David Mermin's Solid State Physics


• Syllabus in PDF format
  


• Project description in PDF format


• Some Student Projects
  • Kelly Patton's The Glass Transition
  • Jon Rosch's Diamond and the Four Cs
  • Daniel Shai's The Globally-Coupled Ising Model with a Lennard-Jones Potential, an extension of his Senior IS thesis.


• Condensed Matter Physics Links
  • Animation of 1D Lattice Vibrations from Kent State University
  • Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics
  • Free Crystalline Solids Program developed for Windows by Stephen Michael Schimpf at UCLA
  • Some visuals complements of Jon Rosch
    • Brillouin Zones Visualization from Technion - Israel Institute for Technology
    • Unit Cell Pictures from the Chemistry Department at LSU
    • Interactive Diamond Structure from the University of Exeter in the UK