Solid State Physics Homework

Homework #1 (due Wednesday, Jan. 21) Kittel, problems #1.2 and 1.3. Special problem 1.
Homework #2 (due Wednesday, Jan. 28) Kittel, problems #2.3, 2.5 and 2.7. Special problem 2.
Homework #3 (due Wednesday, Feb. 4) Kittel, problems #3.2, 3.5, 3.6
Homework #4 (due Wednesday, Feb. 11) Kittel, problems #3.9, 3.10, 4.1, 4.4
Homework #5 (due Wednesday, Feb. 25) Kittel, problems #5.3, 5.4, 5.5, Special problem 3. Note that problem #5.5 is complicated. For part (a) you need to use quantum statistical mechanics to calculate partition functions and free energies. For part (b) you need to relate the frequency shift &delta&omega to the volume expansion &delta V so that &omega becomes a function of the fractional volume expansion &Delta=&delta V/V.
Homework #6 (due Wednesday, March 4) Kittel, problems #5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2. In problem #5.2 you should focus on thermally excited volume fluctuations, not on thermal expansion.
Homework #7 (due Wednesday, March 25) Kittel, problems #6.4, 6.8 and 6.10.
Homework #8 (due Friday, April 3) Kittel, problems #6.7, 6.9, 7.1, 7.2.
Homework #9 (due Wednesday, April 15) Kittel, problems #8.3, 8.4, 8.5, special problem 4.
Homework #10 (due Wednesday, April 22) Kittel, problems #9.2, 9.3
Homework #11 (due Wednesday, April 29) Kittel, problems #9.7, 9.9, 9.10

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