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פיסיקה של חומרים
Physics of Materials |
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Physics of Materials
(0581.3121)
First Semester, 2018/19
Instructor: Dr Oswaldo Diéguez, dieguez@tau.ac.il
Teaching Assistant: Ravit Dvir, ravitdvir@mail.tau.ac.il
Language
This Course will be taught in English.
Content
The main theme of this Course is how the behavior of a material emerges from the interactions between its atoms. Atoms have electrons, which play a major role in the structural, electrical, optical, magnetic, and thermal properties of a material. For an accurate description of these electrons we will rely on the theory of quantum mechanics. This is the expected content of the Lectures:
Prerequisites
This is a third year undergraduate course designed for a materials science and engineering degree. It is expected that you have been exposed to beginning-level university courses in general physics, general chemistry, quantum mechanics, and mathematics. The courses that the Faculty of Engineering demands as prerequisites are obviously mandatory.
Format of the Course
There are three 50-minute Lecture Classes per week (with 10 minute breaks). There will be weekly Homework, available in the Moodle webpage of the Course after the Lectures.
During one Exercises Class (50 minutes) per week we go over the solutions to the Homework.
The meeting times are given in the webpage of the Faculty of Engineering.
Grading
Your Final grade is the highest of these two numbers: (1) Your Final Exam Grade, and (2) 33% of your Homework Grade plus 67% of your Final Exam Grade.
Homework and Final Exam questions are multiple-choice. Your Homework Grade is the average of your best 10 out of the 12 Homework sets (to compensate for one or two times in which unforeseen circumstances might prevent you from submitting Homework).
Etiquette
The assistance to class is not mandatory.
If you decide to come to class, please be respectful to others (for example, please do not eat in class, please arrive on time, and please do not use your cell phone in class).
References
We do not use any particular textbook for this course. If you want to find out more about a particular topic you can consult, for example, the following references.
The level of the course is similar to the level in books such as these:
• Electronic Properties of Materials, by Rolf E. Hummel, Springer (2011).
• Introduction to the Electronic Properties of Materials, by David C. Jiles, CRC (2001).
If you are looking for a more advance treatment of some topics, you can try:
• Solid State Physics, by Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin, Brooks Cole (1976).
• Introduction to Solid State Physics, by Charles Kittel, Wiley (2004).
• Condensed Matter Physics, by Michael P. Murder, Wiley (2015).
Books that explain in simple language the main ideas in this subject are:
• The Nature of Solids, by Alan Holden, Dover (2011).
• Electronic Structure of Materials, by Adrian P. Sutton, Clarendon (1993).