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CHAPTER 1

Introduction

a. Periodic table
b. Atomic structure and bonding
c. Crystal structures and crystal geometry.

A: Multiple choice questions

1. Which of the following are not true about fundamentals of material

A. Polymer
B. Fibreglass
C. Metals
D. Ceramic

2. Which is not true about ceramic

A. Poor electrical and thermal insulator
B. High hardness
C. Useful high temperature strength
D. Mechanically brittle

3. Which is best described about metal

A. Poor electrical and thermal conductors
B. Good electrical and thermal insulator
C. Strong and ductile at room temperature
D. Strong and ductile at high temperature

4. Which is best described about composite

A. Wide range of strength from low to very high
B. Poor electrical and thermal insulator
C. Useable strengths at very high cost
D. Useful high temperature strength

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5. What of the following are not true about periodic table

A. Information about primary bonding
B. Information about metals and non metal
C. Information about atomic number
D. Information about atomic mass

6. Define an alloy
A. A solution of metal in metal.
B. A material contain a structure of pores
C. A material that poor thermal conductor
D. Combination two or more materials that remain distinguishable between each other

7. Which of the following are not referring to the primary bonding

A. Ionic bonding
B. Metallic bonding
C. Covalent bonding
D. Inter molecular bonding

8. What type of bonding will occur between atoms of sodium and chlorine? Given Z (no.
atoms) value for Na and Cl are 11 and 17, respectively.
A. Covalent Bonding
B. Metallic Bonding
C. Van Der Waals Bonding
D. Ionic Bonding

9. The material in which the atoms are arranged chaotically, is called

A. amorphous material C. crystalline material
B. mesomorphous material D. none of these
10. Which of the following is an amorphous material?
A. Mica C. Lead
B. Silver D. Glass

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11. A material is said to be allotropic, if it has

A. fixed structure at all temperatures
B. atoms distributed in random pattern
C. different crystal structures at different temperatures
D. any one of the above

12. The unit cells

A. contain the smallest number of atoms which when taken together
have all the properties of the crystals of the particular metal
B. have the same orientation and their similar faces are parallel
C. may be defined as the smallest parallelopiped which could be
transposed in three coordinate directions to build up the space lattice
D. all of the above

13. How many atoms are contained within the closed- packed hexagonal unit
cell.
A. 2 (two atoms) C. 6 (six atoms)
B. 4 (four atoms) D. 8 (eight atoms)

14. In a face centred cubic space lattice, there are

A. nine atoms out of which eight atoms are located at the corners of the
cube and one atom at its centre
B. fourteen atoms out of which eight atoms are located at the corners of
the cube and six atoms at the centres of six faces
C. seventeen atoms out of which twelve atoms are located at the twelve
corners of the hexagonal prism, one atom at the centre of each of the
two hexagonal faces and three atoms are symmetrically arranged in
the body of the cell
D. none of the above
15. Figure below is referring to what types of crystal structure

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A. Hexagonal closed pack C. Body cubic centered

B. Face cubic centered D. Simple cubic

16. What is the type of crystal structure in figure below.

A. Hexagonal closed pack C. Body cubic centered

B. Face cubic centered D. Simple cubic

17. Crystal structure of a material is, generally, examined by

A. naked eye
B. optical microscope
C. metallurgical microscope
D. X-ray techniques

18. Determine the lattice constant, a, for the cube edge of the iron unit cell.
Iron at 20 ˚C is a BCC structure and having atoms of atomic radius 0.124
nm.
A. 0.2864 nm C. 0.3507 nm
B. 0.2846 nm D. 0.3570 nm

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19. Aluminium crystallizes as face-centered cubic and the atomic radius of

aluminium atoms is 0.143 nm. Calculate the volume of its unit cell in
cubic meters. The atomic weight and density at 200C for aluminium are
26.98 g/mol and 2.71 g/cm3 respectively.
A. 3.60 x 10-29 m3 C. 3.60 x 10-27 m3
B. 6.62 x 10-27 m3 D. 6.62 x 10-29 m3

20. Copper has an atomic radius of 0.128nm, an FCC crystal structure, and
an atomic weight of 63.5g/mol. Compute the density of Copper. Given
1nm=10-7 cm
A. 0.15973nm3 C. 8.98 g/cm3
B. 0.15937nm3 D. 8.89 g/cm3

B: Short questions

1. Define materials science and materials engineering.

2. What are some of the important properties of each of these engineering
materials?
3. Describe about periodic table
4. Define the following terms
a) Isotope
b) atomic number,
c) atomic mass unit
d) Avogadro.s number
e) relative gram atomic mass
5. List 3 types of atomic bonding that you know.
6. Define crystal structure
7. List 7 crystal system
8. List 14 Bravais lattice
9. Draw

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a) simple cubic
b) BCC
c) FCC
d) HCP

C: Long questions

1. Lists and discuss 5 main classes of engineering materials.

2. Discuss and compare about primary and secondary bonding
3. How can the high electrical and thermal conductivities of metals be
explained by the “electron gas” model of metallic bonding? Ductility?
4. Shows that the atomic packing factor for BCC is 0.68.
5. Assuming the atoms to be hard sphere, calculate the atomic packing
factor (APF) for
a) Simple cubic
b) BCC
c) FCC
d) HCP

D: Pass year questions

1. With specific example and the help of diagram, describe the formation
of Ionic bond and covalent bond.
(Hint: Show the movement of electrons in the diagram.)
(Sept 2015)

2. Sketch the crystal structure of Body-Centered Cubic (BCC) and Face-

Centered Cubic (FCC). Calculate the number of atom per unit cell for
BCC and FCC.
(Sept 2015)

3. Materials science is the subject concerned with basic knowledge of the

internal structure, properties, and processing of materials meanwhile
materials engineering is concerned with the use of fundamental and
applied knowledge of materials so that materials can be converted into

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the products necessary to and desired by society. Explain briefly why it is

important to study about materials and list THREE (3) main classes of
engineering materials.
(Sept 2015)

4. Briefly describe the following types of secondary bonding:

i. fluctuating dipole, and

ii. permanent dipole

(Sept 2015)

5. Table 1 is the properties of the Aluminum crystal. Based on it,

Table 1: Properties of the Aluminum

Metal Crystal Atomic Radius Atomic Weight

structure ( nm ) ( g/mol )
Aluminum FCC 0.1431 26.982

i. Draw aluminum crystal structure with its lattice parameter

ii. Calculate the atomic packing factor (AFP), and

iii. Calculate the density of aluminum

(Sept 2015)