This page contains links for an introductory graduate course in Solid State physics room 309 Braunstein 1:00-1:50 (see the UC calendar for important dates). For a more complete description of the course, please see the course syllabus. All of the original material is copyrighted to prevent others from publishing it for profit. However, please feel free to use and distribute these course materials (profit free) to your students. Also, email submissions of solutions, chapters, revisions will be gladly accepted and posted on this site (especially those involving computer symbolic manipulation, simulations, and visualization). Presently, the notes and homework assignments are available for the first twelve chapters of the course. Homework solutions will only be posted for two weeks after their due dates; however, they are available by request to Professors at other Universities (please send a regular-mail request written on letterhead to Mark jarrell, Dept. of Physics, ML-0011, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 45221-0011. Include your email address, and I will send you what I have). A public ftp subdirectory for each chapter can be accessed by clicking on the corresponding graphic. Each of these subdirectories contains at least four files: 

1. chap#.ps, notes for the chapter # (Postscript printer file)

2. chap#.pdf, PDF notes for chapter# (with embedded fonts)

3. chap#.tex, a LaTeX version of chapter # notes

4. chap#.uu, a self-unpacking uuencoded file containing the corresponding postscript figures

First Quarter 

The grade for this quarter will be determined by the homework (50%) the essay (25%) and the talk (25%). Hand the homework directly to Anup Mishra, the course grader. The essay/talk are part of a Materials Review in which you may describe the interesting properties of a material or class of materials in six pages or less, including figures and references but excluding the title page. You will present a talk in class on the same subject. Please look at the speaking and writing guides on John Wilkins' web page. A LaTeX template for this project, (eventually) talk schedule, as well as various guides are linked here.

Second Quarter

The grade for this quarter will be determined by the homework (50%) the essay (25%) and the talk (25%). The essay/talk are part of an Experimental Methods Review in which you must describe an experimental method in in six pages or less, including figures and references but excluding the title page. Please take a look at the efforts of your colleagues in years past. You will present a talk in class on the same subject. Please look at the speaking and writing guides on John Wilkins' web page. A LaTeX template for this project, (eventually) talk schedule, as well as various guides are linked here.

E-mail: jarrell@physics.uc.edu

This work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and by the Ohio Supercomputer Center