Physics of Materials

Lecture 1 - Introduction

Lecture 2 - Properties of Materials

Lecture 3 - Thermal Expansion

Lecture 4 - Measuring Electrical Conductivity: DC and AC

Lecture 5 - Free Electron Gas

Lecture 6 - The Ideal Gas

Lecture 7 - Drude Model: Electrical Conductivity

Lecture 8 - Drude Model: Thermal Conductivity

Lecture 9 - Drude Model: Successes and Limitations

Lecture 10 - Drude Model: Source of Shortcomings

Lecture 11 - Large Systems and Statistical Mechanics

Lecture 12 - Maxwell Boltzmann Statistics

Lecture 13 - Classical Particles and Quantum Particles

Lecture 14 - History of Quantum Mechanics - 1

Lecture 15 - History of Quantum Mechanics - 2

Lecture 16 - Introduction to Drude Sommerfeld model

Lecture 17 - Fermi-Dirac Statistics - Part 1

Lecture 18 - Fermi-Dirac Statistics - Part 2

Lecture 19 - Features of the Fermi Dirac Distribution Function

Lecture 20 - Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Vs Fermi-Dirac Distribution

Lecture 21 - Anisotropy and Periodic Potential in a Solid

Lecture 22 - Confinement and Quantization - Part 1

Lecture 23 - Confinement and Quantization - Part 2

Lecture 24 - Density of States

Lecture 25 - Fermi Energy, Fermi Surface, Fermi Temperature

Lecture 26 - Electronic Contribution to Specific Heat at Constant Volume

Lecture 27 - Reciprocal Space-1: Introduction to Reciprocal Space

Lecture 28 - Reciprocal Space-2: Condition for Diffraction

Lecture 29 - Reciprocal Space-3: Ewald sphere, Simple Cubic, FCC and BCC in Reciprocal Space

Lecture 30 - Wigner Seitz Cell and Introduction to Brillouin Zones

Lecture 31 - Brillouin Zones, Diffraction, and Allowed Energy Levels

Lecture 32 - E Vs k, Brillouin Zones and the Origin of Bands

Lecture 33 - Calculating Allowed Energy Bands and Forbidden Band Gaps

Lecture 34 - Bands; Free Electron Approximation, Tight Binding Approximation

Lecture 35 - Semiconductors

Lecture 36 - Magnetic Properties

Lecture 37 - Electron Compounds; Phonons, Optoelectronic Materials

Lecture 38 - Superconductivity

Lecture 39 - Bose-Einstein Statistics

Lecture 40 - Physics of Nano Scale Materials; Course Summary