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SIXTH SEMESTER B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MARCH 2017

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(CUCBCSS-UG)

Physics

PRY 6B 13 (E3)-MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Time Three Hours Maximum 80 Marks

The symbols used in this question paper have their usual meanings.

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Section A

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(Answer in a word or a phrase)
Answer all questions ; each question carries 1 mark.

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1. --- are the smart materials, which after having been deformed, will revert back to their
original shapes when temperature is changed.

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The bonding existing in water is
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A host atom that occupy an interstitial site is called ---

4. Refractory ceramics withstand high ---

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5. Which one gives higher magnification, electron microscope or optical microscope?

QUestions 6 to 10: write True or False.

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6. The electrical conductivity of polymers is generally high.

7. Van der Waals bonding involves the formation Df atomic dipoles.

8. The relative orientations of Burgers vector and dislocation line are parallel in case of an edge
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dislocation.
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9. Automobile tires are usually made of random copolymers.

10. Laue's method can be used for identifying straIns in crystals.

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Section B

(Answer in two or three sentences)

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Answer all questions ; each question carries 2 marks.

11. What is the theme of materials science and engineering?

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12. Discuss the origin of ionic bonding in N aCI.

13. What do you mean by silicate ceramics?

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14. Give Fick's first law of diffusion.

15. What are macromolecules?

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16. What do you mean by an abrasive ceramic?

17. Mention two applications of a scanning probe microscope.

(7 x 2 = 14 marks)

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Section C

(Answer in a paragraph of about half a page to one page)

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Answer any five questions; each question carries 4 marks

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18. What do you mean by a composite material ? What is the purpose of preparing a composite
material? Give an example.

19. Draw a graph representing the variation of attractive, repulsive and the resultant potential energies

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on the inter atomic separation for two isolated atoms.

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22.
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Explain what is meant by a solid solution.

Explain vacancy diffusion and interstitial diffusion.

Give the names and structures of any four types of repeating units in polymeric materials.
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23. What are MEMS? Discuss their applications.

24. How will you determine the grain size of a sample?

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(5 x 4 = 20 marks)

Section D

(Short essays, in a paragraph of about half a page to one page)

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Answer any four questions; each question carries 4 marks.

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25. Discuss the origin of anomalous expansion of water on freezing.

26. Distinguish between Frenkel and Schottky defects in solids.

27. Discuss the effect of temperature on diffusion.

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28. Write short note on the different structures in ceramics.

29. Discuss the isomerism in hydrocarbon compounds giving an example.

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30. What do you mean by flexural strength of a specimen? Discuss a method to determine the flexu ral
strength of a ceramic specimen.

3 1. Explain the principle of powder diffraction method of structural analysis.

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(4 x 4 = 16 marks)
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Section E

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(Essays-answer in about two pages)
Answer any two questions; each question carries 10 marks.

32. (i) Explain the different steps adopted in determining the Miller indices of a crystallographic
plane; and

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(ii) Discuss the HCP and FCC close packed structures.

33. Describe the linear and interfacial defects in solids.

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34. Discuss the stress-strain behavior and viscoelastic deformation of polymers.

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35. Using a suitable schematic, explain transmission electron microscopy.
(2 x 10 = 20 marks)

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