MATE 201

Question 1.
MATE 201
Aluminum foil used for storing food weighs about
465 g/m2. How many aluminum atoms are present in
one square centimetre of foil?
Fall 2014
Homework #1
Question 2.
What are the main differences between ionic, covalent,
and metallic bonding?
D date:
Due
d t October
O t b 20th, 2014
((lecture time))
No late submissions!
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your name, student number, course name, homework number and
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Question 3.
The interatomic spacing versus potential energy curves of two
different hypothetical elements, a and b, are described in the figure
below.
below
a. Which element has the higher melting temperature?
b. Which has the larger
g interatomic spacing
p
g at 0 Kelvin?
c. Which element has the higher coefficient of thermal expansion?
Briefly justify your answers.
Question 4.
Compute the percentage ionic character of the
interatomic bond for each of the following compounds:
CsF, CdS, and FeO.
Question 5.
Calculate the radius of a nickel atom (in nm), given
th t Ni has
that
h
an FCC crystal
t l structure,
t
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a density
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it off
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8.91 g/cm , and an atomic weight of 58.71 g/mol.
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Question 7.
Question 6.
The unit cell for uranium has orthorhombic symmetry,
with a,
a b,
b and c lattice parameters of 0.286,
0 286 0.587,
0 587 and
0.495 nm, respectively.
If its density,
density atomic weight,
weight and atomic radius are
19.05 g/cm3, 238.03 g/mol, and 0.1385 nm, respectively,
compute the atomic packing factor.
Show that the ideal c/a ratio is 1.633 for the HCP
y
structure.
crystal
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Question 9.
Question 8.
Within a cubic unit cell, sketch the following
directions
Sketch the following planes within a cubic unit cell :
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Question 10.
Within a hexagonal unit cell, sketch the following directions.
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Question 11.
Sketch the
cell.
and
planes in a hexagonal unit
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