580: Solid State Materials

Details on One Page Project

Michel Barsoum — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:18:00 GMT

The project should be one ppt slide. Thats all.

Dear Dr. Barsoum,
I have two questions about the summary of a paper:
1. what is the due date for it?

Dec. 31, 2006

2. can I do it by using my own experiment results in stead of a paper?

Sure.... Why not.

final Exam

Michel Barsoum — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT

Dear All,

After todays meeting here is what was decided. For those of you who did not take the final last night, the final will happen on Monday. Like last exam we will start at 2 pm and please come over as soon as you can. IF you have a good excuse as to why you cannot MAKE the final Monday, please send me an e-mail. I need to know why you cannot do it. (Sebastian and Alex - I know) Others let me know.

Coverage will include: Chs. 2, 3, 4, 14, 15, 16 and a sliver of Ch. 7 + all handouts and problems and power point presentations. (Electrical props. pdf is attached).

IMPORTANT:

I would like a one slide summary of a paper in the literature with a graph or table of results, an equation that apeared in the course and the link between the two....

Lastly, everybody is getting an incomplete... It will take me days to dig from under the rubble... I apologise again for the way this course ended and thank you for your understanding. Cheers. Michel

Ch. 7 ppt

Michel Barsoum — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:19:00 GMT

Attached is the Electrical Cond. ppt. At the end of which you will find 2 problems.. Cheers. Michel

Class

Michel Barsoum — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:32:00 GMT

Dear All,

This coming week I will not be in. I have a press conference in Paris on Nov. 30 to announce the pyramid work; before that I will be in Cairo to take more pictures of the pyramids.

Prof. Jon Spanier will be teaching the class.I will ask Prof. Spanier for questions in the final, so dont blow the class off. Please make sure you resubmit the exam if you want credit for it.

I will upload a problem set for Ch. 7 later. Cheers. Michel

Magnetic and Nonlinear dielectric props lecture

Michel Barsoum — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:06:00 GMT

Attached is the ppt presentation. For next week please attempt the following:

Ch. 15: 15.4, 15.6, 15.7, 15.10, 15.11, 15.13, 15.15+ ALL the worked example in the chapter.

Ch. 14 lecture

Michel Barsoum — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:35:00 GMT

Attached is ppt presentation of Ch. 14.. Have fun. MB

Problem set for Ch. 14

Michel Barsoum — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:49:00 GMT

Please solve the following:

Ch. 14: 14.2, 14.4, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10,14.11, 14.15

The static and high frequency dielectric constant of Si are identical and = 11.7. Explain:

i) what conculsion can be reached from knowing that, static and high frequency dielectric constant are identical/

ii) Typically electronic polarization yields ke of the order of 2-4.. What is it about Si that renders the dielectric constant so high?

new improved errata sheet

Michel Barsoum — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:46:00 GMT

new improved errata sheet

Problem Set 3

Michel Barsoum — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:05:00 GMT

Here is problem set:

Ch. 4: 4.1, 4.2 (to be handed in), 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, 4.7, 4.9.

Extra Problems:

When Cu is heated its density will decrease for two reasons: thermal expansion and the fomation of vacancies. Calculate the drop in density when a piece of Cu is heated from 20 C to 1000 C assuming, a) no vacancies form. b) vacancies form. Assume energy of vacancy formation is 0.9 eV/atom. You can also assume that the volume coefficient of thermal expansion is equal to 3 x linear thermal expansion coefficient (see problem 4.9). Comment on the relative values of each of the terms.

In class I said that thermal expansion is inversely proportional to the melting point or bond energy. Look up the thermal expansions of NaCl and MgO. Do they support this conjecture? If not, what possible explanation can you give? PS. I do not know the answer ;-)

Have fun y'all,

Here is problem set # 2

Michel Barsoum — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:40:00 GMT

PS # 2

Corrected lecture 2

Michel Barsoum — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:32:00 GMT

Corrected lecture

Presentation 3

Michel Barsoum — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:20:00 GMT

Presentation 3

Copies of ppt presentations and HW set # 3

Michel Barsoum — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:06:00 GMT

Please see attached. Cheers. MB

Homework problem Set 1

Michel Barsoum — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:30:00 GMT

Assigned reading: Ch. 1 in Rohrer and Chs. 2 and 3 in Barsoum

The assigned problems are:

Ch. 2: 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 2.10, 2.16

and Problems 8 and 11 in Ch. 1 of Rohrer's book.

Rohrer Handout

Michel Barsoum — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:06:00 GMT

Attached you will find a handout I will be discussing in class.