Paavendhar College of Arts & Science, M.V. South 21UPHE01/04 30.10.

2023 - FN
Pre Semester Examinations – October - 2023
7. In second harmonic generation, the frequency is ____________.
III B.Sc. Physics
(a) Constant (b) Doubled
MATERIALS SCIENCE
(c) Negative (d) All o f the above
Marks: 75 Duration: 3 Hours
8. In optical mixing, the sources of ___________ frequencies are mixed
PART A – (15 x 1 = 15 marks)
together
Answer ALL Questions.
(a) Same (b) Different
1. When does brittle fracture is noticed? (c) high (d) Low
(a) On overloading (b) On sudden loading
9. Nanoparticles are obtained by breaking the bulk solids employing
(c) Uniaxial loading (d) Compressing
_______ method
2. In _____________ fracture, the crack grows at a slow pace and a lot (a) Top down (b) Bottom up
of plastic deformation occurs. (c) Ball mill (d) Condensation
(a) Ductile (b) Brittle
10. A metal used in orthopaedics has a composition of 65% Fe, 12% Ni,
(c) Fatigue (d) De-cohesive
19% Cr, 3% Mo, 1% Mn. What is it?
3. Deformation that occurs due to stress over a period of time is (a) Ti6—A14—V alloy (b) 316 L stainless steel
known as ____________ (c) F-25 Co—Cr alloy (d) F90 Co—Cr alloy
(a) Wear resistance (b) Fatigue
11. _______ materials have minimal interactions with surrounding
(c) Creep (d) Fracture
tissues.
4. Fluorescence occurs within _______. (a) Bio-inert (b) Bio-gas
(a) 10-5 s (b) 10-5 ms (c) Bio-active (d) Bioresorbable
(c) 10-5 µs (d) 10-5ns
12. _______ materials have interaction with surrounding bone and soft
5. Luminescence is because of tissues.
(a) Photons emitted while excited electrons drops down (a) Bio-inert (b) Bio-gas
(b) Knocking out of electrons by photons (c) Bio-active (d) Bioresorbable
(c) Photons stimulated by photons
13. Metallic glasses are
(d) All
(a) glasses with metallic impurities
6. The bound state electron-hole pair is known as __________. (b) high strength glasses
(a) traps (b) exciton (c) rapidly quenched metals
(c) activators (d) Coactivators (d) the metals which are in clay form
14. Cermets have 23. (a) Discuss the harmonic generation in non-linear optical materials.
(a) ceramics and composites (b) certain waxes Or
(c) carbon fibres and metals (d) metals and ceramics (b) Describe the sol-gel technique for Synthesis of nonomaterial.

15. Bi2 Te3 – Bi2 Se3 alloys have 24. (a) Explain the metallic and polymeric biomaterials with its
(a) High strength applications.
(b) Light emitting power Or
(c) Permanent electric dipole moment (b) Write a notes on
(d) High thermoelectric power (i) Biocompatibility
(ii) Biomaterial Sources.
PART B – (2 x 5 = 10 marks)
Answer any TWO Questions. 25. (a) Explain the preparation, properties and applications of metallic
glasses.
16. What is a creep? Describe the theories of creep.
Or
17. Discuss the concept of excitons. (b) Explain the following
(i) Thermoelectric Materials
18. Explain the construction and working of Ball milling technique (ii) Electrets
for Synthesis of nanomaterial.

19. Discuss the general properties of biomaterials.

20. Write notes on cermets.

PART C – (5 x 10 = 50 marks)
Answer ALL Questions.

21. (a) Explain the mechanism of brittle fracture.

Or
(b) Discuss the different mechanical properties of engineering
materials.

22. (a) State and explain Beer’s and Lambert's law.

Or
(b) Discuss the various types of colour centers in optical materials. Mr. S.Iqbal/Physics