MATERIALS: AN INTRODUCTION

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Introduction
As an engineer, our aim is to come up with solutions for the problems which are yet unsolved or to come up with better solutions than existing one. Not many of us, when start to read materials science professionally, have ever thought of a material as a material. It is everywhere in the world. But what we perceive is a utility and think of it in same terms. Take, for instance, case of a 1

1. Introduction hammer. We know from our experience that it is a tool to force a nail into a wall or a door or something else.