Condensed Matter Physics
Michael
Marder
Center
for Nonlinear Dynamics
and
Department
of Physics
The
University of Texas at Austin
Micrograph
of dendrite in stainless steel courtesy of L. A. Boatner, Janie
Gardner, and Douglas Corrigan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,Oak
Ridge TN.
This book is a graduate-level text in condensed matter physics. It combines classic topics from solid state physics with new material of the past thirty years. It is 895 pages long, is in the fifth corrected, printing, and is selling for $105.95.
Corrections and Comments (5th
Printing):
Corrections
and Comments (2nd Printing):
Comments
on Problems (2nd Printing):
Corrections
and Comments (1st Printing):
Comments
on Problems (1st Printing):
Table
of Contents:
Sample
Syllabi:
Preface:
Supplementary
Materials:
The
text was reprinted in February 2004,
eliminating virtually all errors reported to date.
An instructor's
manual with sketches of solutions to
all the problems is available, to instructors only, by email.
Lecture
notes in pdf format are
available to accompany much of the book. They contain almost all
the equations and pictures from the text, although sometimes
equations are deliberately obscured to encourage students to work
out simple results. To obtain the lecture notes, email
me or visit Nicenet.
If you have not visited this site before, click on the upper-left
link entitled Join a Class. Enter the key R66738C92 , and
create a user name and password for yourself. After entering the
class space, you will be able to access the lecture notes through
the Link Sharing menu item at the left of the screen. You
will only need the key for your first visit to the site;
subsequently you will use your user name and password.
Financial assistance during preparation of this text from the National Science Foundation under grants DMR 9877044 and DMR 9802562 is gratefully acknowledged. Opinions expressed in the text and on these pages are those of the author and not of the National Science Foundation.