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Preface

Important Tables

Suggestions for Using the Book

1.The Drued Theory of Metals

2.The Sommerfeld Theory of Metals

3.Failures of the Free Electron Model

4.Crystal Lattices

5.The Reciproal Lattice

6.Determination of Crystal Structures by X-Ray Diffraction

7.Classification of Bravais Lattices and Crystal Structures

8.Electron Levels in a Periodic Potential:General Properties

9.Electrons in a Weak Periodic Potential

10.The Tight-Binding Method

11.Other Methods for Calculating Band Structure

12.The Semiclassical Model of Electron Dynamics

13.The Semiclassical Theory of Conduction in Metals

14.Measuring the Fermi Surface

15.Band Structure of Selected Metals

16.Beyond the Relaxation-Time Approximation

17.Beyond the Independent Electron Approximation

18.Surface Effects

19.Classification of Solids

20.Cohesive Energy

21.Failures of the Static Lattice Model

22.Classical Theory of the Harmonic Crystal

23.Quantum Theory ofthe Harmonic Crystal

24.Measuring Phonon Dispersion Relations

25.Anharmonic Effects in Crystals

26.Phonons in Metals

27.Diekctric Properties ofInsulators

28.Homogeneous Semiconductors

29.Inhhomogeneous Semiconductors

30.Defects in Crystals

31.DiamagnetismandParamagnetism

32.Electron Interactions andMagnetic Structure

33.Magnetic Ordering

34.Superconducavity

APPENDICES

INDEX