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Physics of Materials: Essential Concepts of Solid-State Physics

by Prathap Haridoss
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Paperback: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788126557875
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 268
  • Original Price: INR 659.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 500 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Physics / General

This book examines essential concepts in Solid-State Physics. The accompanying DVD, containing 40 lectures of approximately an hour each, provides the student with the classroom experience. Animations are also included in the DVD to enable a more visual experience to understand the discussed concepts. Significant effort has been put in to present the material at the right level of detail such that it can be accessed and utilized by undergraduate and postgraduate students with a wide range of backgrounds. A conscious effort has been made to ensure that the level of detail used in the presentation enables students to stay with the content throughout. ·Introduction – Use and Study of Materials ·Properties of Materials ·Thermal Expansion ·Electrical Conductivity ·Free Electron Gas and The Ideal Gas ·The Drude Model ·Large Systems, Statistical Mechanics and The Maxwell–Boltzmann Statistics ·A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics; Its Use in the Drude–Sommerfeld Model ·Fermi–Dirac Statistics ·Anisotropy, Periodic Potential, Confinement and Quantization ·Density of States, Fermi Energy and The Electronic Contribution to Specific Heat at Constant Volume ·The Reciprocal Space ·Wigner–Seitz Cell, Brillouin Zones and The Origin of Bands ·Bands, Band Gaps, Free Electron Approximation and Tight Binding Approximation ·Material Phenomena Explained using Theories Developed ·Superconductivity and The Bose–Einstein Statistics ·Physics of Nano-Scale Materials

Dr Prathap Haridoss is Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT, Madras. His research interests include PEM Fuel Cells, Carbon Nanomaterials including Carbon Nanotubes, Semiconducting Nanomaterials, and recycling printed circuit boards. He has developed a communication device for the speech impaired and a footwear-based device to enable gait analysis by timed mapping of foot contact points. He is also working on developing an exoskeleton to assist differently-abled as well as elderly people.

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