Elementary Solid State Physics: Principles and Applications (Repost)
Elementary Solid State Physics: Principles and Applications By M. Ali Omar
1993 | 690 Pages | ISBN: 0201607336 | scanned PDF | 243 MB
1993 | 690 Pages | ISBN: 0201607336 | scanned PDF | 243 MB
This is a corrected printing of the 1975 text which was plagued with mistakes. Omar does a good job introducing topics with easy to understand examples and good qualitative explanations. The very first chapter gets the reader off to a good start with a thorough, but understandable, teatment of crystallography (other authors always manage to botch this). Omar's problem sets are lengthier, more varied, and above all, more doable than those in Kittel's text. The problem sets are preceded by a set of qualitative questions, which are good practice for the occasional conceptual problem that the instructor may include on an exam.