Solid State Physics Course (Physics 4309-5304) Lectures
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      Major portions of the lectures will be from Introduction to Solid State Physics, by Kittel. Topics will be discussed in approximately the order as in the table of contents. Unless otherwise stated, the lecture content is based on material in that book & chapter numbers refer to it's chapters. Supplemental material from many other sources is also used. When the use of supplemental material is extensive, the source of that material is noted.

Introduction
     Syllabus, Course Web pages, Grading, Exams, Homework, Semester Project

1. Crystal Structure (Ch. 1) Lecture 1 The following are constucted from files
     posted on the web by Prof. Beşire GÖNÜL in Turkey. Her homepage is Here.
     She does an excellent job of covering many details of crystallography.
     She also illustrates her topics with many very nice pictures of lattice structures.
     I've labeled her files GLecture 1 to GLecture 6. She had posted them Here
     GLecture 1, GLecture 2, GLecture 3, GLecture 4, GLecture 5, GLecture 6

2. Chemical Bonding, Crystal Binding Energies (Ch. 3)
    Part I:

3. Wave Diffraction, Reciprocal Lattice, Brillouin Zone (Ch. 2)
    Part I:

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