The book gives a clear exposition of the elements of the physics of perfect crystalline solids. In discussing the principles, the author aims to give students an appreciation of the conditions which ...

we can visualise each individual molecule or ion or atom in the particle model as a solid sphere – like a snooker ball. And the properties of each state of matter depends on the forces between ...

We study soft materials like liquid crystals and colloids, as well as solid matter ranging from superconductors to insulators ... Colloidal Matter We use real space tracking to measure particle ...