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PHY 307 Solid State Physics I

300 levelSciences10 topics

PHY 307 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Crystal structures and Bravais lattices
  2. Miller indices and crystal planes
  3. X-ray diffraction and Bragg's law
  4. The reciprocal lattice
  5. Lattice vibrations and phonons
  6. Specific heat of solids
  7. Free electron theory of metals
  8. Band theory of solids
  9. Semiconductors and carrier concentration
  10. Dielectric and magnetic properties of solids

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Crystal structures and Bravais lattices

Crystal structures and Bravais lattices are the foundation of solid state physics because they describe how atoms are arranged in a solid and how that arrangement repeats in space. For exams, you must clearly distinguish between a lattice, a basis, and a crystal structure, and be able to classify common unit cells and Bravais lattices using symmetry and translational repetition.

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