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SES # Key
Rb = Recitation: Structure and Bonding
Rt = Recitation: Thermodynamics
This page presents information covered in recitation sessions. While each lecture session includes both thermodynamics and structure/bonding content, recitations alternate their focus between thermodynamics and structure/bonding.
Recitation files.
| Ses # |
Structure and Bonding RECITATIONS |
Thermodynamics RECITATIONS |
| Orientation: Research and Careers in Materials Science and Engineering |
| Rt1 |
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Practice Problem Solutions (PDF) |
| Rb1 |
Practice Problems (PDF)#
Solutions (PDF)# |
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| Rt2 |
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Practice Problem Solutions (PDF)
Responses to Student Questions (PDF) |
| Rb2 |
Practice Problems (PDF)#
Solutions (PDF)# |
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| Rt3 |
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Notes (PDF)#
Practice Problem Solutions (PDF)# |
| Rb3 |
Practice Problems (PDF)#
Solutions (PDF)#
Responses to Student Questions (PDF)# |
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| Rt4 |
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Quiz 1 Review (PDF)# |
| Rb4 |
Practice Problems (PDF)#
Solutions (PDF)# |
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| Rt5 |
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Practice Problem Solutions (PDF) |
| Rb5 |
Practice Problems (PDF)#
Solutions (PDF)# |
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| Rt6 |
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Responses to Student Questions (PDF) |
| Rb6 |
Mercury Software
Handout on Mercury (PDF)
Mercury Input Files (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: Au.cif, GaAs.cif, and Si.cif) |
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| Rt7 |
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Animations:
Common Tangent Principle (MOV)
Eutectic Free Energy Diagram (MOV)
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| Rb7 |
Review Session (PDF)#
Description of sp, sp2, sp3 Hybridization (pp. 415-417) in Atkins, P. W., and J. de Paula. Physical Chemistry. 7th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0198792859. |
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| Rt8 |
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Eutectics Notes: How to Find Compositions and Phase Fractions (PDF)# |
| Rb8 |
X-Ray Diffraction Notes (PDF) |
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| Rt9 |
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Practice Problems (PDF)
Solutions (PDF)# |
| Rb9 |
Notes on X-Ray Diffraction (PDF) and "Idle Mind" Solutions (PDF)# (These two files from 3.091 are courtesy of Prof. Don Sadoway, and used with permission.) |
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