Learning Objectives

Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, the trainee should be able to identify simple crystal structures and calculate their basic structural properties. They should know quantities that describe the main properties of a material and characteristic order of magnitude for their numerical values.
In particular, they should know which quantities tell us if a material is:
(a) hard or soft
(b) heats up easily or not
(c) conducts electricity
(d) is transparent or
(e) is affected by magnetic fields.

Learning Objectives:
Students will have learned to calculate the approximate density, the distance between adjacent atoms, modulus, heat capacity, dielectric constant, refractive index, magnetoresistance in simple solids. They should have understood the mechanisms of quantum motion of electrons and the thermal motion of atoms in solids.