Introduction
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"My Favorite
Materials" (To the tune of
"My Favorite Things")
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Chapter 1: Conductors and Resistors
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"Ohm Sweet Ohm"
(poem)
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Chapter 2: Windows, Doors, and Transparent
Electrodes
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"Ode on a Scottish
Del" (poem)
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Chapter 3: Insulators and Capacitors
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"Quickly Polarize"
(To the tune of "Accentuate the Positive")
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Chapter 4: Lenses and Optical Fibers
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"Unfreedom"
(poem)
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Chapter 5: Inductors, Electromagnets
and Permanent Magnets
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"Our Ferromagnetic Love"
(To the tune of "That Old Black Magic")
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Chapter 6: Superconductors and Magnets
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"Onnes Bonus"
(poem)
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Chapter 7: Elasticity, Springs, and
Sonic Waves
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"The Three Nesses
(stiff-, hard-, and tough-)"
(To the tune of "Material Girl")
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Chapter 8: Light Particles, Electron
Waves, and Quantum Wells
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"Boxed In"
(poem)
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Chapter 9: The Periodic Table, Atomic
Spectra, and Neon Lights
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"The Elements"
(song by Tom Lehrer)
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Chapter 10: The Game is Bonds - Interatomic
Bonds
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"Making a Pi"
(To the tune of "Comin' Through the Rye")
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Chapter 11: From Bonds to Bands
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"Carbons
Wise Hybridize" (poem)
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Chapter 12: Free-Electron Waves in
Metals
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"Yesterday
is History" (To the tune of
"Yesterday")
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Chapter 13: Nearly Free Electrons -
Bands, Gaps, and Holes
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"When
You're in k-Space" (To the
tune of "Makin' Whoopee")
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Chapter 14: Metals and Insulators
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NEW!
"Band
Aid" (poem)
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Chapter 15: Semiconductors
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NEW!
"Physics
at Its Best" (poem)
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Chapter 16: LEDs, Photodectors, Solar
Cells, and Transistors
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NEW!
"p-n
Junk " (poem)
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