Homework #10


PHY491

Simon Billinge

Fall 2000

Atomic Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics

Textbook: Introduction to Solid State Physics, 7th edition, C. Kittel.


Due Wednesday 6th December, 2000



These questions are taken from "Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers", second edition, by S. T. Thornton and A. Rex (Saunders College publishing, Fort Worth, 2000. They are taken from Chapter 8 which will be handed out in class.


  1. 8.2.19

  2. 8.2.20

  3. 8.2.22

  4. 8.2.23


The following question is from "Electronic structure and the properties of solids" by Walter A. Harrison (Dover, New York, 1989). It is taken from Chapter 1 which will be handed out in class.

  1. 1-3