Assignment 3

Heat treatment and Surface hardening – I

NPTEL-Mooc-3rd week

1. Atoms in which of the following crystal system has highest number of nearest neighbours?
a) Simple Cubic (SC)
b) Body Centered Cubic (BCC)
c) Face Centered Cubic (FCC)
d) Hexagonal Closed Packing (HCP)

2. Theoretical density of Iridium with FCC crystal structure is 22.4 g/cm3 and its atomic weight
is 192.2 g/mol. Radius of Iridium atom will be
a) 0.278 nm
b) 0.641 nm
c) 0.136 nm
d) 0.924 nm

3. If bond energy of Fe-Fe (BCC) bond is 21 kJ/mol, then bond energy per atom will be
a) 13.95 X 10-20 kJ
b) 13.27 X 10-15 kJ
c) 1.48 X 10-13 kJ
d) 50.8X10-19 kJ

4. Energy of {100} family of planes for Fe with bond energy 21 kJ/mol and atomic radius of
0.124 nm will be
a) 0.23 J/m2
b) 0.56 J/m2
c) 0.39 J/m2
d) 0.85 J/m2

5. Energy of {111} family of planes for Ni if bond energy is 25 KJ/mol and atomic radius of
0.125 nm will be
a) 2.89 J/m2
b) 1.15 J/m2
c) 3.57 J/m2
d) 8.54 J/m2

6. If atomic radius of Ni is 0.125 nm then number of bonds broken per unit area in a Nickel
crystal on the (100) plane of Ni will be
a) 6.52 x 1014
b) 3.22 x 1019
c) 7.85 x 1020
d) 8.89 x 1012
7. Total number of atoms per unit area in BCC iron with atomic radius = 0.124 nm in (111) pane
will be
a) 1.22 X 1015 atoms / cm2
b) 3.45 X 1015 atoms / cm2
c) 0.71 X 1015 atoms / cm2
d) 1.73 X 1015 atoms / cm2

8. Total number of atoms per unit area in FCC gold with atomic radius = 0.144 nm in (110) pane
will be
a) 1.21 X 1017 atoms / cm2
b) 1.39 X 1017 atoms / cm2
c) 0.85 X 1017 atoms / cm2
d) 1.45 X 1017 atoms / cm2

9. Increase in number of atoms per unit area will lead to

a) Increase in Nucleation rate
b) Decrease in Nucleation rate
c) No effect on nucleation rate
d) None of the above

10. During freezing of a FCC crystal, order of nucleation of (100), (110) and (111) planes will be
a) (100), (110), (111)
b) (110), (100), (111)
c) (111), (100), (110)
d) (110), (111), (100)