| DAY | DATE | LECTURER | L/R | SUBJECT | READ | PROBLEM SET | |
| OUT | DUE | ||||||
| M | 5-Feb | Registration Day | |||||
| W | 7-Feb | L1 | Molecular Bonding I | PSSA 2.1 | 1 | ||
| F1 | 9 | L2 | Molecular Bonding II | PSSA 2.2 | |||
| F2 | R1 | Background Refresher | 6.728 Lectures 16 and 22-25 | ||||
| M | 12 | L3 | Bonding in Solids | PSSA 2.3 | |||
| W | 14 | L4 | Metal as Free Electron Gas | PSSA 3.1-3.3, A&M 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| F1 | 16 | L5 | Elastic Waves: Classical Continuum | PSSA 4.1-4.3 | |||
| F2 | R2 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 19 | Vacation Day | |||||
| Tues | 19 | L6 | Elastic Waves: Quantized | PSSA 4.4 | Part 1 | ||
| W | 21 | L7 | Debye & Einstein Models | PSSA 4.5 | 3 | 2 | |
| F1 | 23 | L8 | Stiffness Matrix | PSSA 4.6 | |||
| F2 | R3 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 26 | L9 | Periodic Structures | PSSA 5; A&M 4 and 5 | |||
| W | 28 | L10 | Periodic Structures, x-ray diffraction | PSSA 5; A&M 4 and 5 | 3 | ||
| F1 | 2-Mar | L11 | Lattice Waves: 1D monatomic | PSSA 6.1; A&M 22 and 23 | |||
| F2 | R4 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 5 | L12 | Lattice Waves: 1D diatomic | PSSA 6.2; A&M 22 and 23 | |||
| W | 7 | L13 | 2D Lattice Waves | PSSA 6.3-6.4; A&M 22 and 23 | 4 | Part 1 | |
| F1 | 9 | L14 | Quantization of Lattice Waves | PSSA 6.5 | Part 2 | ||
| F2 | R5 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 12 | L15 | Phonon-Photon Interactions | PSSA 6.6 | |||
| W | 14 | L16 | 1D Tight Binding: Monatomic | PSSA 7.2; A&M 10 | 4 | ||
| F1 | 16 | L17 | 1D Tight Binding: Diatomic | PSSA 7.2; A&M 10 | |||
| F2 | Problem Session | ||||||
| M | 19 | L18a | 2D & 3D Tight Binding | PSSA 7.2; A&M 9 | |||
| W | 21 | L18b | 2D & 3D Tight Binding | PSSA 7.2; A&M 10 | 5 | Part 2 | |
| F1 | 23 | L19 | Nearly Free Electron Approximation | PSSA 7.4; A&M 9 | Part 3 | ||
| F2 | R6 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 26 | Spring Break | |||||
| W | 28 | Spring Break | |||||
| F | 30 | Spring Break | |||||
| M | 2-Apr | L20 | Nearly Free Electron Approximation | PSSA 7.4; A&M 9 | |||
| W | 4 | L21 | Properties of Bloch Functions | PSSA 7.5; A&M 8 | |||
| F1 | 6 | L22 | Band Structure of Materials | PSSA 7.6 | |||
| F2 | R7 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 9 | L23 | Effective Mass Theorem | PSSA 8.2 | |||
| W | 11 | L24 | Semiclassical Eqns of Motion | PSSA 8.4 | 5 | ||
| F1 | 13 | L25 | Hydrogenic Impurity States | PSSA 8.3 | |||
| F2 | R8 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 16 | Holiday | |||||
| W | 18 | L26 | Electrons and Holes: I | PSSA 9.3-9.4 | 6 | Part 3 | |
| F1 | 20 | L27 | Electrochemical Potential/Donors | PSSA 9.5 | |||
| F2 | R9 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 23 | L28 | Band Bending in Metals | SDS 11 | |||
| W | 25 | L29 | Band Bending in Semiconductors | SDS 11 | 7 | 6 | |
| F1 | 27 | L30 | Non-Equilibrium: A Case Study | SDS 4 | |||
| F2 | R10 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 30 | L31 | Generation and Recombination | SDS 8 | |||
| W | 2-May | L32 | Boltzmann Transport :I | SDS 9 | 8 | 7 | |
| F1 | 4 | L33 | Relaxation Time Approximation | SDS 11 | |||
| F2 | R11 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 7 | L34 | Scattering Rates | 8 | |||
| W | 9 | L35 | Scattering Rates | ||||
| F1 | 11 | R12 | Problem Session | ||||
| F2 | R13 | Problem Session | |||||
| M | 14 | L36 | Velocity Saturation | ||||
| W | 16 | L37 | Velocity Saturation | ||||