Solid State Physics

Arrivato nel giro di una settimana dall'ordine. La carta delle pagine è molto sottile e ha la copertina flessibile, ma essendo un'edizione economica è perfetto. Mi è arrivato in ottime condizioni in quanto era impacchettato con cartone e plastiche varie. Contenuto ottimo e molto chiaro!

This is a classic gem available in the market of solid state physics or condensed matter physics. I would recommend it to every learner of the subject. It is better than the popular Kittel’s book.

This is an excellent book. It is highly logical and very carefully worded. If you spend the time following the logic of the arguments, you will be rewarded by a very clear understanding of the subject matter. Pre requisites for this are (1) quantum mechanics [fairly good background] and (2) statistical mechanics. Probably of greatest note, I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND using this book alongside ICTP (Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics) online video lectures on Solid State Physics by S. Scandalo. Look at website and you will find free access to these lectures. I am a self-studier of physics (not now or ever enrolled in formal degree programs), and Scandalo's lectures are INCREDIBLE. He is also highly logical and moves at a very appropriate pace for learners of the subject. He seems to formulate his arguments and derive his equations on the spot (rather than have preprepared lecture notes that are quickly written down and often makes lecture too fast to fully grasp). Scandalo's superb online video lectures coupled with this outstanding book makes learning Solid State Physics quite approachable and frankly deeply interesting and exciting. Only note that lectures don't fully correlate in sequence (which is okay); for example Scandalo starts from equivalent of Ch 3 of this book. Of note for other self-studiers, you do need good quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics background. For QM, there are good choices, but for books I have found Griffiths to be the best (although I first learned QM from Shankar); online video lectures by Barton Zwiebach (coupled with his great lecture notes) were outstanding and my favorite. For Statistical Mechanics, I did not do any online videos (though this might be worth it), but really enjoyed the presentation of Thermal Physics by Schroeder (which includes a lot of SM but also some classical thermodynamics).

I like it. It deal with a subect with profundity and an easy-to-understand approach

The book itself seems pretty decent. This cheap Indian edition, however, is not very good. The pages are super thin and the text is too close to the inner margin.