Syllabus:

Statistical and Solid State Physics, 12 credits

Swedish name: Fasta tillståndets fysik och statistisk fysik

This syllabus is valid: 2025-09-01 and until further notice

Course code: 5FY232

Credit points: 12

Education level: First cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Physics: First cycle, has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass with merit, Pass, Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Physics

Established by: Faculty Board of Science and Technology, 2025-06-06

Required Knowledge

Thermodynamics, or equivalent. Quantum Mechanics 1, or equivalent. Electromagnetics, or equivalent. Physical Measurement Techniques with electric circuit theory, or equivalent. Waves and Optics, or equivalent.

Literature

Valid from: 2026-01-19

Literature for the Statistical Physics part of the course

Baierlein Ralph
Thermal physics
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 1999 : 442 s. :
ISBN: 0521590825
LIBRIS ID: 5025246
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Literature for the Solid State Physics part of the course

Introduction to solid state physics
Kittel Charles, McEuen Paul
Global edition : Hoboken, NJ : Wiley : [2018] : xix, 692 pages :
ISBN: 9781119454168
LIBRIS ID: 9m7rm4jq7f4srn7b
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Additional reading

Solid state physics
Hook John R., Hall Henry Edgar
2. ed. : Chichester : Wiley : 1991 : xxi, 474 s. :
ISBN: 0-471-92804-6 (inb.)
LIBRIS ID: 4983149
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Simon Steven H.
The Oxford solid state basics
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2013 : xiii, 290 pages :
ISBN: 9780199680764
LIBRIS ID: 14857097
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Laboratory instructions