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DEPARTMENT OF MINING AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING

MIME 262 Midterm Winter 2014

Professor Bevan
• Closed Book. Write the exam version on the automated marking sheet.
• Only faculty approved calculators allowed.
• Each question is worth 5 pts for 100pts total.
• A periodic table and a table of constants are provided at the end of the exam.
• Clearly indicate your answer on the automated scoring multiple choice answer sheet, not on this exam.
• Student answers will be subject to analysis by the McGill Exam Security Computer Monitoring program in
order to identify unusually similar answer patterns.

1. The average bond length in a material is 0.25 nm, if material possessing such a bond length is
simple cubic how many atoms should it contain in a 1cm3 material sample?
a. 6.0×1023
b. 4.2×1020
c. 8.8×1021
d. 6.4x1022
e. 2.6×1023
f. 1.6×1015

2. What is the electron shell filling for Cl and Li when they are bonded ionically to form LiCl,
using the periodic table at the end of the exam and filling of the noble elements provided below?
a. [Ne].3s2.3p5 and [He].3s1
b. [Ne].3s2.3p6 and [He].2s0
c. [Ar].3s2.3p5 and [He].3s1
d. [He].2s2.2p5 and [Kr].6s0
e. [Ne].2s2.2p5 and [Ne].3s1
f. [Ar].3s2.3p4 and [Ne].3s2

3. The nuclear potential, with charge Z, which traps electrons to form energy levels is described by
the following mathematical relation, and the formed electron energy levels are understood in
terms of the corresponding theory (see sketch below):
a. V(r) = -Zq2/4πε0r2 and quantum mechanics
b. V(r) = -Zq2/4πε0r2/3 and statistical mechanics
c. V(r) = -Zq/4πε0r1/2 and classical mechanics
d. V(r) = -Zq2/4πε0r1 and classical mechanics
e. V(r) = -Zq/4πε0r2 and electrodynamics
f. V(r) = -Zq2/4πε0r1 and quantum mechanics

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4. A network oxides and cross-linked polymers have the following attribute in common?
a. They are both formed from ionic bonds
b. They are both chemical glasses
c. They are both isomorphic materials
d. They both formed through monomer reactions
e. They are both anti-phase materials
f. All of the above

5. If the energy bonding potential between two atoms is expressed as

A B
E = 11 − 3
r r
where A=22 eV/Å and B = 13 eV/Å-3. The equilibrium bonding distance between the two
-11

atoms is then:
a. 1.2563
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b. 1.7767 Å
c. 2.1760 Å
d. 2.5126 Å
e. 0.8883 Å
f. 0.6282 Å

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6. If silicon is placed substitutionally in diamond at a concentration of 1 Si atom per 100 C atoms,

what does the resulting electronic band diagram look like?
a. Diagram 4ξ
b. Diagram 4σ
c. Diagram 4η
d. Diagram 4τ

4τ 4ξ 4η 4σ

7. A 2D sheet of Boron (blue) Nitride (pink) is periodically doped in a well ordered manner with
the nitrogen isotope N-15 (green) as shown below, what is a possible unit cell of this new
composite material?
a. Diagram 5ξ
b. Diagram 5σ
c. Diagram 5η
d. Diagram 5τ
e. Diagram 5κ

5κ
5ξ τ

5σ
τ

5η
5τ

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8. The work out the Miller set notation for the planes below, assuming that there is no intersection
with the z-axis for any of the planes:
a. (001) , (620) , (010) , (260)
b. (340) , (110) , (210) , (130)
c. (620) , (620) , (010) , (100)
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e. (100) , (130) , (010) , (230)
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f. (310) , (100) , (010) , (360)
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9. How many tetrahedral and octahedral voids are there in the below unit cell?
a. 4 and 12
b. 6 and 4
c. 8 and 8
d. 4 and 8
e. 6 and 6
f. 8 and 6

10. A screw dislocation is an example of:

a. A 0-dimensional defect
b. A 1-dimensional defect
c. A 2-dimensional defect
d. A 3-dimensional defect
e. A quasi dimensional defect
f. An edge defect

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11. What type of crystal structure is given below:

a. Hexagonal close packed crystal
b. Wurtzite crystal
c. Quasi-crystal
d. Body centered cubic crystal
e. Amorphous crystal
f. Fringed micelles crystal

12. The below crystal structures are classified as:

a. Rock salt and diamond cubic
b. Face centered cubic and hexagonal close packed
c. Simple cubic and face centered cubic
d. Diamond cubic and zinc blende cubic
e. Hexagonal close packed and rock salt
f. Face centered cubic and diamond cubic

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13. Which stacking exists in the crystal lattice given below?

a. FCC Intrinsic Stacking Fault
b. FCC Antiphase Stacking Fault
c. FCC Perfect Stacking
d. FCC Extrinsic Stacking Fault
e. FCC Twin Boundary Stacking Fault
f. FCC Precipitate Stacking Fault

14. The below reaction diagram is an example of?

a. A cross linking reaction
b. A monomer reaction
c. A side group reaction
d. A thermoplastic reaction
e. A chain reaction
f. A condensation reaction

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15. Determine the number of free electrons in aluminum in a m3 sample. The molar mass of
aluminum is 26.98 g/mol and the density is 2.70 g/cm3.
a. 1.6047×1019
b. 1.8079×1029
c. 6.0243×1028
d. 9.0365×1028
e. 1.3902×1028
f. 2.3495×1030

16. The electrical resistivity of silver, at 273 K, is 1.47×10−8Ωm. Silver adopts the FCC structure
with a cubic lattice parameter, a0, of 0.4086 nm. The velocity of electrons at the Fermi surface is
1.39×106 m/s.ჼLEach silver atom contributes one electron to the structure. The relaxation time
and mean free path in terms of the lattice constant (rounded value) of the crystal is:
a. 1.29×10−14 s and 44.0 lattice parameters
b. 6.60×10−33 s and 44.0 lattice parameters
c. 6.57×10−15 s and 22.0 lattice parameters
d. 4.12×10−14 s and 140.0 lattice parameters
e. 8.27×10−15 and 28.0 lattice parameters
f. 7.57×10−11 s and 257460.0 lattice parameters

17. The resistivity of zinc metal crystals at room temperature is 6.05×10−8Ωm parallel to the c axis,
and 5.83 ×10−8Ωmჼó parallel to the a axis. Zinc adopts the hexagonal close packed structure with
hexagonal unit cell parameters of a0= 0.2665 nm, c0=0.4947 nm and each Zn atom contributes
two mobile electrons to the crystal. The mobility of the electrons along the unit cell axes is:
a. 6.55 cm2V−1s−1 6.80 cm2V−1s−1
b. 1.80 cm2V−1s−1 1.87 cm2V−1s−1
c. 7.85 cm2V−1s−1 8.14 cm2V−1s−1
d. 9.06 cm2V−1s−1 9.40 cm2V−1s−1
e. 3.61 cm2V−1s−1 3.61 cm2V−1s−1
f. 17.84 cm2V−1s−1 18.50 cm2V−1s−1
Hint: The c0 lattice parameter crosses all unit cell hexagonal planes and the a0 lattice
parameter describes the distance between atoms in a hexagonal plane.

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18. The coordinates of cubic nickel oxide are:

The formula of the oxide and the structure type is:

a. NiO and rock salt
b. Ni2O2 and face centered cubic
c. NiO and body centered cubic
d. Ni2O2 and diamond
e. NiO and zinc blende
f. Ni2O2 and octahedral face center cubic filled

19. What are the wavelengths (λ) of the photons emitted from a He+ atom when an electron makes a
transition from n=4 to the lower levels n=1 and 3, if the energy of light is E=hv where h is
Plank’s constant? The energy levels of a single electron bound to a nucleus with charge Z are
given by E=−AZ/n2, where A=13.6eV.
a. 54.34 nm and 469.48 nm
b. 187.79 nm and 97.41 nm
c. 2949.81 nm and 152.95 nm
d. 298.88 nm and 305.91 nm
e. 5891.52 nm and 305.49 nm
f. 937.66 nm and 48.62 nm

20. How many fluoroethylene monomers are needed to produce 0.5 kg of teflon polymer?
a. 4.67×1025
b. 2.13×1024
c. 9.71×1023
d. 6.05×1023
e. 3.01×1024
f. 9.58×1023

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Useful constants:

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