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Exam in CMP2

Examination:

The examination is going to consist of two parts. A half-an-hour lecture on a given topic in the "8th" week of the course (1. April) and a two-hours written examination in the "9th" week (8. April, notes and books are allowed). 

The lecture and the written exam are going to be weighted equally in the total grade (in-house censor, 7-step-scale).


The oral examination (20-30 minutes talk) is scheduled to take place:

Friday the 1st of April, 9.00 in D317.

List of topics for the oral examination:

1)     Bloch's theorem and nearly free electrons. - Erik
2)     Lattice vibrations. Einstein and Debye model. - Logi
3)     Dynamics of Bloch electrons. - Kevin
4)     Transport phenomena (Boltzmann equation). - Mikolaj
5)     Mean-field theory and the Ising model.
6)     Order-disorder transition of an alloy. - Gitte
7)     Second-order phase transition. Landau free energy. - Maria
8)     Atomic magnetism. - Olivier
9)     Heisenberg model.
10)    Landau-Ginzburg theory of superconductivity.
11)    Flux quantization in type II superconductor. - Simon
12)    The Josephson effect. - Anders Simonsen

Your  names have been introduced on the list at the topic you are going to present. The  final sequence of the talks is found below. The number after your name  refers to the list of topics above. Please, observe your meeting time.  You are all encouraged to show up in order to attend some of the other  seminars besides the one you are going to present yourself.

Friday the 1st of April in D317

kl: 9
Erik, 1
Logi, 2

kl: 10
Kevin, 3
Mikolaj, 4

kl: 11
Gitte, 6
Maria, 7

kl: 13
Olivier, 8
Simon, 11

kl: 14
Anders, 12 

You are much welcome to contact me in my office (D410) if you have any questions. With the exception of Wednesday afternoon (30. March), I expect to be present in my office most of the time.

Question hour: Thursday the 7. of April, 14.00-15.00 in D317

The  written exam (2 hours) is scheduled to take place: Friday the 8th of April, 10.00-12.00 in A101.
 

Problems and answers from the written examination in CMP2, the 8.  April 2011:

April 2011:   Problems    and   Solutions

Examination scores: You did all 9 pass the exam: 1 of you got 12, 2 got 10, 4 got 7, 1 got 4, and 1 with the score 02.