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Introduction to Solid State Chemistry — Structure of the Atom

Subjects: Chemistry · Engineering · Science

Art: Georg Agricola, De re metallica - gold panning (125711726), 1556 · Public domain

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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 3.091SC Introduction to Solid State Chemistry, Fall 2010, Prof. Donald Sadoway — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: this unit's sessions in MIT's listing order. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

Instructor
Prof. Donald Sadoway
Term
Fall 2010
Level
Undergraduate
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Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.

1. Introduction to Solid State Chemistry

2. The Periodic Table

3. Atomic Models: Rutherford & Bohr

4. Matter/Energy Interactions: Atomic Spectra

5. Electron Shell Model & Quantum Numbers

6. Particle-Wave Duality

7. The Aufbau Principle; Photoelectron Spectroscopy

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