Homeworks & Projects

Homework I

Askeland (6th ed.) Problems: 1.7, 1.12, 1.16, 1.20

 

Homework II

Askeland (6th edition) Problems: 2.14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 24, 26

Read chapter 3. Problems: 3.4, 6, 10, 11, 13

 

Homework III

Askeland (6th edition) Problems: 3.29, 38, 42, 44, 49, 59, 66, 72,  82

 

Technical Report

Technical Memorandum on construction of crystal structures

Technical Memorandum Tips for Construction of Model Unit Cells (Click here)

Lab Report Tips for Construction of Model Unit Cells

Contact the teaching assistant to get a copy of the lab report format used in our department. 

What you should include (Grading Guidelines)

List of Tables

 

Additional Study Questions

I. Explain binding energy (potential well) and interatomic spacing graphically. Determine what properties of materials they affect.

II. Determining the crystal structure of a material using XRD data. Solve Question 3.78 in Askeland.

III. Read Section 12-9 and study the Fe-Fe3C phase diagram on p.461. Write down the temperature and concentration ranges and properties of various phases of iron and its solid solutions with carbon.

From the textbook (Askeland and Phule)

2.5

3.14, 3.38, 3.40, 3.57, 3.60, 3.78

4.7, 4.16, 4.25, 4.28, 4.39, 4.43

 

Take Home Exam Research question:

 

Midterm Questions
 

Presentation Topics

 

As part of the KMU396 course, you will prepare and present powerpoint presentations.

The topics will be the most recent or most commonly used material characterization, property testing and measurement instruments such as the:

  1. Optical microscope, Inverted optical microscope, Fluorescence microscope

  2. Scanning Tunneling Microscope, STM  and Tranmission Electron Microscope,TEM

  3. Atomic Force Microscope, AFM

  4. Scanning Electron Microscope, SEM

  5. X-ray Diffractometer, XRD

  6. Energy Dispersive X-Ray, EDX

  7. Atomic absorption spectrocopy, AAS

  8. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, FTIR

  9. Auger Electron Spectroscopy, AES, and Electron Spectroscopy for chemical analysis, ESCA

  10. Field Ion Microscope, FIM, Field Emission Microscope, FEM

  11. Mass spectrometry, MS, Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, SIMS

  12. Impulse excitation technique, IET

  13. Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, EELS

  14. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, XPS

Prepare 10 minute power-point presentations in English.

Give introductory information on the above topics first, list example(pdf)s.

Refer to scientific journal papers (Wikipedia is not a reference).

List all references used.

Type the source next to/under any tables, pictures, figures that do not belong to you.

Make sure to avoid plagiarism.

Use your own words for any explanations.

Be ready to answer 2-3 questions from the audience at the end of the presentation.

Remember that your research should not be limited to the web, you should refer to textbooks and technical papers.

 You need to:
- Tell what the instrument is used for
- Give brief history (who discovered it, where and when, which lab/university/etc: only one slide long)
- Give information about its parts, what it is made of
- Explain how it works
- Explain what type of materials can be tested/characterized and what properties can be measured and the scale/units, give examples
- Explain advantages and disadvantages

Your presentations should include (but is not limited to) the following:
- A title slide including the title of your presentation, your name and affiliation, date and place
- A slide showing an outline of your speech
- A slide explaining the goals of your presentation
- Slides explaining the material (should have font size minimum 20pt, i.e. readable by the audience; should be bulleted, i.e. do not use long paragraphs)
- References next to pictures and figures adopted from web or literature
- A conclusion/summary slide

During the presentation, you should:

- Look professional

- Act professional

- Not read the information on the slides but provide explanations in your own words

- Be ready to answer a few questions