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By the end of this chapter, students will be able to...
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Describe what crystalline and noncrystalline (amorphous) materials are. |
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Learn how atoms and ions in solids are arranged in space and identify the basic uilding blocks of solids. |
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Describe the difference between atomic structure and crystal structure for solid material. |
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Distinguish between crystal structure and crystal system. |
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Explain why plastics cannot be 100% crystalline in structure. |
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Distinguish between single crystal and polycrystalline structure, and explain why single crystal material (and the polycrystalline structure of the same material) have different electrical conductivity. |
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Compute the densities for metals having body-centered, and face-centered cubic structures. |
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Describe how to use the x-ray diffraction method for material characterization. |
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Write the designation for atom position, direction indices, and Miller indices foSpecify what are the three densely packed structures for the most metals, and explain why HCP is the most brittle one.r cubic crystal structure, and Miller-Bravais indices for hexagonal-closed packed structure. |
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