Physics 617, Physics of the Solid State

Joseph Ross, Texas A&M University

Spring 2025

General course information:

The Course Syllabus can be found here. The textbook for the course is:

Solid State Physics, Ashcroft and Mermin.
The syllabus is also posted on Canvas, and generally I will put course slides, homework, and other information on the Canvas page as the course proceeds, rather than posting them here.

Also here is a bibliography of additional references on the course material.

Other information:

Contact info: Best is to email me at

A few useful links:

The Fermi Surface database has a comlete listing for the elements.
Crystal Lattice Structures page: originally at Naval Research Labs, now hosted here, and see here.
PhysicsWeb.
The Amercan Physical Society homepage.

Rossgroup research home page.
TAMU Physics & Astronomy home-page.
Texas A&M University. (ATM image)