Preface

Chapter One  Atomic Bonding in Solids
1.1 Types of Atomic Bonding
  1.1.1 Ionic bonding
  1.1.2 Covalent bonding
  1.1.3 Metallic bonding
  1.1.4 Molecular bonding-van-de-Waal\\\\\\\'s bonding
  1.1.5 Hydrogen bonding
1.2 Equilibrium Inter-atomic Distance

Chapter Two  Crystal Structure
2.1 Crystal
  2.1.1 Lattice and symmetry
  2.1.2 Translational symmetry operation and unit cell
  2.1.3 Point group symmetry operation
  2.1.4 Space group
  2.1.5 Primitive unit cell, centered unit cell and 14 Bravais lattices
2.2 Simple Crystal Structures
2.3 Wave and crystal
  2.3.1 Reciprocal lattice
  2.3.2 Brillouin zone

Chapter Three Lattice Wave and Specific heat of Solids
3.1 Harmonic Oscillation of Atoms in Solids
  3.1.1 One dimensional homogeneous line
  3.1.2 One dimensional monatomic lattice
  3.1.3 One-Dimensional Diatomic lattice
3.2 Quantization of Lattice Waves
3.3 Specific Heat of Solid
  3.3.1 Dulong-Petit\\\\\\\'s law
  3.3.2 Theory of specific heat of solids
  3.3.3 Phonon and zero point energy
  3.3.4 Thermal conductivity
  3.3.5 Thermal expansion

Chapter Four  Electrons in Metal - Energy Band Theory
4.1 Classical Theory of Free Electron
  4.1.1 Electric conduction - Ohm\\\\\\\'s law
  4.1.2 Thermal conduction
  4.1.3 Failures of the classical free electron model
4.2 Quantum Theory of Free Electron
  4.2.1 Quantization of electronic states
  4.2.2 Fermi energy and Fermi surface
  4.2.3 Density of states
  4.2.4 Failures of the simple quantum theory of free electron
4.3 Energy Band Theory
  4.3.1 Nearly free electron model
  4.3.2 Density of states
  4.3.3 Metal, insulator and semiconductor
  4.3.4 Effective mass
  4.3.5 Holes
  4.3.6 Linear combination of atomic orbitals