Solid State Physics Homework

Homework #1 (due Wednesday, Jan. 19) Kittel, problems #1.2 and 1.3. Special problem 1.
Homework #2 (due Wednesday, Jan. 26) Kittel, problems #2.2, 2.5 and 2.7. You may turn in corrected versions of special problem #1 to receive extra credit.
Homework #3 (due Wednesday, Feb. 2) Kittel, problems #3.2, 3.5 and special problem 2.
Homework #4 (due Wednesday, Feb. 9, Kittel, problems #3.9 (the sound speed should be denoted v_s rather than v_x), 3.10, 4.1
Homework #5 (due Wednesday, Feb. 16, Kittel, problems #4.2, 4.3 and 4.6. Special problem 3
Homework #6 (due Wednesday, March 2) Kittel, problems #5.1b, 5.3, 5.4, Special problem 4.
Homework #7 (due Friday, March 18) Kittel, problems #5.2, 5.5a Note problem 5.2 deals with thermally excited volume fluctuations, not thermal expansion. Note for problem 5.5a you need to use quantum statistical mechanics to calculate the partition function Z (sum over states of the Boltzmann factor). The free energy is F=-k_BT log Z.
Homework #8 (due Wednesday, April 6) Kittel, problems #6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 6.7 (note: in this problem the electric field oscillates with frequency ω).
Homework #9 (due Wednesday, April 13) Kittel, problems #7.1, 7.4, 7.6.
Homework #10 (due Friday, April 22) Special problem 5. Kittel #8.3 (note that mobility is the ratio of drift velocity to electric field).
Homework #11 (due Friday, April 29) Kittel, problems 8.1, 8.4, 8.5, special problem 6.

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