Prerequisites : PHYS 503, PHYS 522 or concurrent. Offered in fall.
Quantization and energy barriers; central field problem; free electron models of solids;
magnetic fields; optical phenomena: transmittance, reflectance, dielectric constant. Band structure of solid, semiconductors, non-stoichiometric solids, superconductivity, BCS theory, magnetic properties of solids, dia-, para- and ferromagnetism; magnetic susceptibility and magnetic resonance; interpretation of spectra and applications.
