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For solid state practitioners and future practitioners, August 22, 2005
This review is from: Solid State Physics (Hardcover)
If you want a book written by some one in the field, this is it. The books often used in grad school, ie. Kittel or Ashcroft & Mermin, tend to be favored by instructors who usually are theorists. Burns' book was the "under-ground" favorite of physics grads students getting ready for the oral exams in solid state. No one "officially" told us to get this book, but older grad students would recommend it to younger ones to prepare for their qualifier. Now that I've been "in the field" of solid state physics so-to-speak a few years, I look back and realize this book was the most useful for actual practice of solid state.
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