Welcome to
AML120: Materials Science 3-0-2
R. Prasad
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R. Prasad
Professor
Department of Applied Mechanics
Office: MS207/C-10
Tel. 011-2659 1782
Mob: 981853 8085
rajesh@am.iitd.ac.in
rajesh.prasad.iitd@gmail.com
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AML120: Materials Science 3-0-2
Lectures:
Lab
3 hours/wk
2 hours/wk
Self study
3 hours/wk
8 hours/wk
Acharyat padamadatte padam shishyaswamedaya
padam sahabrahmacharibhyopadam kalakramenacha
A quarter given by the teacher, a quarter
comes from pupil’s own effort, a quarter from
peers, and quarter as the time unfolds
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AML120: Materials Science 3-0-2
Textbook:
V. Raghavan, Materials Science and
Engineering: A First Course
3 lectures per week x 14 weeks = 42 lectures
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2.
3.
4.
Introduction [1]
Thermodynamics Review [2]
Crystallography [4]
Structure of solids [6]
Minor I
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AML120: Materials Science 3-0-2
5. Defects in crystalline solids [6]
6. Phase Diagrams [4]
7. Composite materials [1]
8a. Plastic deformation I [2]
Minor Test II
8b. Plastic Deformation II [3]
9. Fracture and fatigue [3]
10. Phase transformation [5]
11. Corrosion [2]
Major Test
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All lab classes would be held in
Materials Science Core Laboratory, Room MS207/C-6
Mon
1.00-3.00 pm
Group 4, 14
3.15-5.15 pm
Group 9
Tue
Group 5,15
Group 10
Wed
Group 1,11
Group 6
Thu
Group 2,12
Group 7
Fri
Group 3,13
Group 8
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Grading
Minor I
Minor II
Major
Quizzes + Lab
Total
60
60
120
80
320
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Attendance Policy
A max of 10 grace marks for good
attendance
10
Grace
marks
0
0
75
Attendance %
100
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Q1: Feynman’s Question:
If in some cataclysm, all of scientific
knowledge were to be destroyed, and
only one sentence passed on to the
next generation of creatures, what
statement would contain the most
information in the fewest words?
The Feynman Lectures on Physics,
Vol. 1, Chapter 1, Section 1.2
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Feynman’s answer:
Matter is made of atoms
“In that one sentence, you will
see, there is an enormous
amount of information about
the world, if just a little
imagination and thinking is
applied.”
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Epitaphs of some famous scientists
Newton’s Epitaph
NATURE ANd NATURE’s LAws
lay hid in Night,
God sAid, “LET NEwToN bE!”
and all was light.
Alexander Pope
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Q2: Who has a single mathematical
equation as his epitaph?
Thermodynamics: Chap 2
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Q3: How are atoms arranged inside
a solid?
Crystallography and
structure of solids,
Chaps 3 & 5
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Q4: Which is the only father-son
team to win a Nobel prize? For
what?
X-ray diffraction,
Ch 3
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The Kissing number Problem
Q5: What is the maximum number of
equal sized spheres that can be
arranged around a given sphere of
same size?
Structure of solids, Ch 5
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Q6: Why sometimes air simply leaks out
of a cycle tube while at other times it
comes out with a burst?
Chap 12; Fracture
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Q7: Why did Titanic sink?
Chap 12; Fracture
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Q8: Artificial rain?
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Q9: Who said (in 1895)
“Heavier than air flying machines
are impossible”
— Lord Kelvin, President
of the Royal Society, 1895.
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As time permitted I started Lec 2, Ch2
on thermodynamics and covered the
first 12 slides upto , S=k ln W.
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