The Oxford Solid State Basics

Fantastic text for undergraduate introduction to Solid State physics. I found this book, in my undergraduate course, prepared me well for my condensed matter course at the graduate level. The real reason I love this book is the excellent footnotes. Simon will keep you entertained as you tackle a beautiful subject with footnotes that extend your understanding, share in your confusion, or go completely off topic once in a while (Stoner's Criterion). It's a great experience, I highly suggest you get a copy!

This is a great introductory level solid state book. I really appreciate the humor and the way the content is presented as in a story book. Definitely not your typical boring textbook. I've recommended it to my student and they all appreciated its crystal clear explanations. It is not too heavy in math but the physics is flawless. An amazing resource I will recommend for a Solid State Course.

I tried to prepare for my first solid state physics course using Kittel and Ashcroft/Mermin. They are both OK books but their method of teaching the subject is not very intuitive. I found myself lost between the huge gaps in their derivations. Simon talks you through each section; it reads very much like a lecture. After reading this book, the other two books made a lot more sense. I highly suggest reading this book first, though. I had so many misunderstandings from the other two books that I had to unlearn a lot of things. The best part is that Simon actually tells you chapters in the other books to read further if you want more than an introduction to the specific topic at hand. I wanted to give this book 4.5 stars but Amazon has quantized the stars to whole integers. The reason I wanted to take off a half star is because of the jumps in derivations. Unfortunately, in upper division physics, almost all texts do this, some more than others. While I wish he would work out some example problems and not make giant leaps in derivations, it wasn't worth a whole point deduction. Hands down best introductory Solid State Physics textbook.

The book arrived one week before expected. However, it was damaged during shipping. The cover is slightly torn.But these details do not alter the content of the book. The book is an excellent introduction to solid state physics and is also good preparation for condensed matter physics.

I have purchased this book for a graduate-level Solid State course. Though it has some value, I do wish there were more in-depth proofs.

This book does a very good job of providing simple figures and perspectives to build intuition about Solid State Physics. For this reason, it is highly complementary to Ashcroft and Mermin, who provide excruciating details on essentially the same topics covered here. I have found great success in first referencing this book to get the main equations and concepts understood and only then moving on to more verbose texts.

Arrived quickly and in good condition.

This inanimate object is in a solid state. The atoms have formed semi-complex organization to produce a rigid object. Because of chemical bonding and electro-static forces this object keeps its defined shape.

Este libro esta muy bien escrito, en particular Simon hace un excelente trabajo para que este material sea mas autocontenido que libros clásicos como Kittel, no aborda tal vez con tanto rigor las parte matemática pero hace mucho énfasis en los concetos físicos por lo que lo colocaría como lo dice el titulo como un curso básico.Sin duda es un libro que vale mucho la pena tener para cualquier estudiante de Física aun si no esta encaminado en el área de materia condensada.

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Gutes Buch, nur leider kam es (durch den Transport) leicht gewellt an. Inhaltlich sehr gut lesbar

It is a fantastic first book on condensed matter physics. Lack of stress on crystal structure makes is easy on the students. superconductivity is not discussed unfortunately.