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EEE-3617
Dr. Md. Shakowat Zaman Sarker
What is Solid?
The sate of matter in which materials are not fluid but retain their boundaries without support and having three dimension (length, breadth and thickness) as a geometric body or figure. Example: Atomic solid, Metallic solid, Molecular solid and Ionic solid.
What is Materials?
Materials are made up of lot of little particles. How these particles are arranged determines their state. A materials state can be solid, liquid and gas. Solid: Solid can be hold their own shape unless something happens to them Liquid: Liquid flow and take the shape of their container Gases are usually invisible and spread out to fill up spaces
Crystal Structure
The periodic array of atoms, ions, or molecules that form the solids is called crystal structure. The most important property of a crystal is periodicity, which leads to the term of long range order.
Short vs Long Range order No order: atom or molecules are in random order Short range order: atom or molecules are only arranged with there closest neighbors Long range order: atom or molecules are arranged in a regular respective pattern or lattice
Unit cell
A small cell in the crystal structure that carries the properties of the crystal. The repetition of the unit cell in 3-dimensions generated the whole crystal structure. In the cubic crystal system three types of arrangements are found: Simple cubic Body-centered cubic Face-centered cubic
Simple cubic
Body-centered cubic
Face-centered cubic