Department of Physics

10ΕΛΕ05  States and Properties of Matter 

Course webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS348

Course outline

Course content

• Solids: Periodic and quasi-periodic crystals, amorphous and fractal solids. Self-similarity. Bose- Einstein condensates. Real gases and liquids. Mesophases.
• Symmetry types, operations, groups. Crystals and crystal lattices in 1, 2, 3 dimensions.
• Atomic bonding. Hybridization.
• Linear elasticity. Viscoelasticity. Elastic waves.
• Surface tension and wetting.
• Transport phenomena.