This book provides an introduction to the field of solid state physics for undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.[...]

In "It's About Time", N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education - after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the rea[...]