This course will be helpful for students who are interested in condensed matter physics (theory or experiment) in future.
The pre-requisite for this course is mathematical methods I and II, classical mechanics, quantum mechanics I and II and statistical mechanics. This course is for 4th year BS-MS and PhD students.
Forces between atoms, Calculation of atomic cohesive energy, Different bonds in solid - covalent, ionic and metalic, bond energy of NaCl, Calculation of crystal binding energy - Madelung constant.
Free electron theory - Drude model, DC conductivity, Hall conductivity, Thermal conductivity, Sommerfeld correction to Drude model.
Bravais lattice, Primitive cell, Unit cell, Wigner-Seitz cell, Crystal structure, Reciprocal lattice, Brillouin zone, Miller indices,
Bragg's formulation, Von Laue formulation,
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