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    ENG 103_ HW2 Due date: February 28th, 2022

    (Minimum 10 problems are required to finish to get full credit for the homework)

    3.10 Show that the minimum cation-to-anion radius ratio for a coordination number of
    4 is 0.225.

    3.12 On the basis of ionic charge and ionic radii, predict crystal structures for the following

    materials:

    (a) CaO
    (b) KBr.
    Justify your selections.

    3.13 Compute the atomic packing factor for the rock salt crystal structure in which rC/rA =
    0.414.

    3.15 Iron oxide (FeO) has the rock salt crystal structure and a density of 5.70 g/cm 3.
    (a) Determine the unit cell edge length.
    (b) How does this result compare with the edge length as determined from the
    radii in Table 3.4, assuming that the Fe2+ and O2– ions just touch each other along the
    edges?

    3.19 Compute the theoretical density of ZnS given that the Zn—S distance and bond angle
    are 0.234 nm and 109.5°, respectively. How does this value compare with the measured
    density?

    3.22 List the point coordinates of both the sodium and chlorine ions for a unit cell of the
    sodium chloride crystal structure (Figure 3.5).

    1
    3.23 Sketch a tetragonal unit cell, and within that cell indicate locations of the 11 and
    2
    1 1 1
    point coordinates.
    2 4 2

    3.25 Sketch a monoclinic unit cell, and within that cell a [1 01] direction.

    3.26 What are the indices for the direction indicated by the vector in the sketch below?
    3.28 Determine the indices for the directions shown in the following cubic unit cell:

    3.30 Convert the [001 ] direction into the four-index Miller–Bravais scheme for hexagonal
    unit cells.

    3.31 Determine the indices for the two directions shown in the following hexagonal unit
    cell:
    3.34 What are the indices for the plane drawn in the sketch below?

    3.35 Sketch within a cubic unit cell the following planes:

    (a) (012), (c) (101 ) ,

    (b) (31 3) , (d) (21 1) .

    3.37 Determine the Miller indices for the planes shown in the following unit cell:

    3.39 Below are shown three different crystallographic planes for a unit cell of some
    hypothetical metal. The circles represent atoms:
    (a) To what crystal system does the unit cell belong?
    (b) What would this crystal structure be called?
    (c) If the density of this metal is 18.91 g/cm3, determine its atomic weight.

    3.48 Using the data for α-iron in Table 3.1, compute the interplanar spacings for the
    (111) and (211) sets of planes.

    4.3 Below, molecular weight data for a polytetrafluoroethylene material are tabulated.
    Compute (a) the number-average molecular weight, (b) the weight-average molecular
    weight, and (c) the degree of polymerization.

    Molecular Weight
    Range (g/mol) xi wi

    10,000–20,000 0.03 0.01


    20,000–30,000 0.09 0.04
    30,000–40,000 0.15 0.11
    40,000–50,000 0.25 0.23
    50,000–60,000 0.22 0.24
    60,000–70,000 0.14 0.18
    70,000–80,000 0.08 0.12
    80,000–90,000 0.04 0.07
    4.8 The number-average molecular weight of a poly(acrylonitrile-butadiene) alternating
    copolymer is 1,000,000 g/mol; determine the average number of acrylonitrile and
    butadiene repeat units per molecule.

    4.14 The density and associated percent crystallinity for two polypropylene materials are
    as follows:

    ρ (g/cm3) Crystallinity (%)

    0.904 62.8
    0.895 54.4

    (a) Compute the densities of totally crystalline and totally amorphous


    polypropylene.
    (b) Determine the density of a specimen having 74.6% crystallinity.

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