Should I buy Kittel's Introduction to Solid State Physics?

[Slimy0233]

I want to know your opinion on whether I should buy Kittlel's Introduction to Solid State Physics or some other book to study Solid State Physics. I was going through the solutions manual for the book and I realized that it had only 72 questions in it. I was wondering if it was enough to get a good understanding of Solid State Physics? Should I be buying other books along with Kittel to get a deeper understanding of the topic as well as solve problems? thank you! Or should I go with Solid State Pysics by AJ Dekker?

Edit: I have Problems in General Physics by IE Irodov, might this and Kittel be enough?

 

[malawi_glenn]

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/best-solid-state-physics-book-for-beginners.1011323/

 

[Slimy0233]

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/best-solid-state-physics-book-for-beginners.1011323/

Hello, I read this but I think I am gonna keep this thread as there are indeed some differences between the both questions and the problems and the answers part are much more important for me here. Thank you tho!

 

[malawi_glenn]

You could find course websites which uses Kittel as main book and see if you can find homeworks, additional problems, old exams and such

Have you considered https://www.amazon.com/dp/352740855X/?tag=pfamazon01-20 or https://www.amazon.se/gp/aw/d/9814366870/

 

[Slimy0233]

You could find course websites which uses Kittel as main book and see if you can find homeworks, additional problems, old exams and such

Have you considered https://www.amazon.com/dp/352740855X/?tag=pfamazon01-20 or https://www.amazon.se/gp/aw/d/9814366870/

excellent. Thank you very much! I will use Kittel and also use the other materials you have sited.

 

[Slimy0233]

You could find course websites which uses Kittel as main book and see if you can find homeworks, additional problems, old exams and such

Have you considered https://www.amazon.com/dp/352740855X/?tag=pfamazon01-20 or https://www.amazon.se/gp/aw/d/9814366870/

Hey, I just found out that Kittel is not that easy to understand and Dekker would be an excellent book for a beginner. Do you agree with this?

Thank you again! (might make a post about this, this has hardly been discussed in this forum)

 

[Frabjous]

Check out these lecture notes by Simon.
http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/condmat2011/LectureNotes.pdf

He later wrote Solid State Basics.

There are 21 lectures and other interesting stuff on his website
http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/book.html

 

[Slimy0233]

Check out these lecture notes by Simon.
http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/condmat2011/LectureNotes.pdf

He later wrote Solid State Basics.

There are 21 lectures and other interesting stuff on his website
http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/book.html

This will prove very helpful! thank you very much!

Since, I can't edit my post, I will leave these notes here.

 

[vanhees71]

Another classic is Ashcroft and Mermin, which I like for looking up something about solid-state physics, but I'm not an expert in this field.