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The Final: Thursday 4/30/2009, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, HCB 317

The Condensed Matter Final Exam will cover the following topics:

Granularity
Center of Mass
Importance of Quantum Mechanics
Phases of Matter & Transitions
Planck’s radiation formula
Wien's Law
Stefan-Boltzmann law
de Broglie wavelength
Interaction energy between atoms
Hydrogen Atom
  • Mean Field Theory 1/26
Isothermal compressibility
Behavior at liquid-gas critical point
  • Primitive Lattice Vector 2/4
Weiss mean-field
Néel temperature
Spin Susceptibility
Staggered susceptibility
FCC structure
Miller indices
FCC: Cell within a cell
  • Linear Differential Equations 2/16
  • Crystal Vibrations, Bose-Einstein Model 2/20
Diatomic harmonic chain
Speed of sound
Brillouin zone
Debye temperature
Specific heat in a solid
Maximum phonon wavelength
  • Electron Degeneracy Pressure 3/4
  • Fermi Energy Derivation 3/6
Resistivity and Conductivity
The Hall effect
Fermi Energy Derivation
Fermi Velocity Derivation
Electron Density Derivation
Fermi Temperature
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Phase transition
Curie temperature
Pauli exclusion principle
Fermi Energy and density
Harmonic frequency
Specific Heat
  • Electronic Structure in a Periodic Potential 3/27
Energy band theory in solids
Tight-binding model
Electronic Density of State
Free electron model
Thermodynamic Limit and Domain Wall
Magnetization of a ferromagnet and Curie temperature
Phonon density
Fermi energy, density, and temperature
Extra credit will be awarded for answering bonus questions about the term projects