Self-Assessment: Crystalline Materials | Crystalline Materials | Introduction to Solid State Chemistry | Materials Science and Engineering

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This self-assessment page completes the Crystalline Materials module, and covers material from the following sessions.

Session 15: Introduction to Crystallography
Session 16: Crystallographic Notation & X-Rays
Session 17: X-Ray Emission & Absorption
Session 18: X-Ray Diffraction Techniques
Session 19: Point & Line Defects
Session 20: Line, Interface, & Bulk Defects

On this page are a simple weekly quiz and solutions; relevant exam problems and solutions from the 2009 class; help session videos that review selected solutions to the exam problems; and supplemental exam problems and solutions for further study.

Weekly Quiz and Solutions

This short quiz is given approximately once for every three lecture sessions. You should work through the quiz problems in preparation for the exam problems.

Exam Problems and Solutions

These exam problems are intended for you to demonstrate your personal mastery of the material, and should be done alone, closed-book, with just a calculator, the two permitted reference tables (periodic table, physical constants), and one 8 1/2" x 11" aid sheet of your own creation.

After you've taken the exam, watch the help session videos below for insights into how to approach some of the exam problems.

Exam Help Session Videos

In these videos, 3.091 teaching assistants review some of the exam problems, demonstrating their approach to solutions, and noting some common mistakes made by students.