Recitations

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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.


Ses # Structure and Bonding RECITATIONS Thermodynamics RECITATIONS
Orientation: Research and Careers in Materials Science and Engineering
Rt1 Practice Problem Solutions (PDF)
Rb1 Practice Problems (PDF)#

Solutions (PDF)#
Rt2 Practice Problem Solutions (PDF)

Responses to Student Questions (PDF)
Rb2 Practice Problems (PDF)#

Solutions (PDF)#
Rt3 Notes (PDF)#

Practice Problem Solutions (PDF)#
Rb3 Practice Problems (PDF)#

Solutions (PDF)#

Responses to Student Questions (PDF)#
Rt4 Quiz 1 Review (PDF)#
Rb4 Practice Problems (PDF)#

Solutions (PDF)#
Rt5 Practice Problem Solutions (PDF)
Rb5 Practice Problems (PDF)#

Solutions (PDF)#
Rt6 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)
Rt7

Animations:

Common Tangent Principle (MOV)
Eutectic Free Energy Diagram (MOV)

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.
Rt8 Eutectics Notes: How to Find Compositions and Phase Fractions (PDF)#
Rb8 X-Ray Diffraction Notes (PDF)
Rt9 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.)