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MATERIALS

The 4 types of material:

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METAL: a material where the molecules are arranged in neat rows...

CERAMIC: a material where the molecules are arranged in a disordered, random fashion...

POLYMER: a material made of long chains of molecules...

What you need to learn (and to demonstrate in your assignments that you have learnt!) is how the properties of different materials - elasticity, plasticity, breaking etc. come about because of how the molecules of that material are arranged...
how the molecules of that material are arranged...
how the molecules of that material are arranged...
how the molecules of that material are arranged...
how the molecules of that material are arranged!

Click here for notes on the chemistry behind all this - the 5 types of solids are... The 5 types of solid

How molecules are arranged in different ways leading to different properties is rather like how different arrangments of footballers (442, 532, etc) can lead to different styles of teams - click here for more information on Football Formations

The most important properties of materials (as far as the examiners are concerned anyway...):

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What is this course about?

Properties of materials

Stress and Strain

The structure of matter

Composite materials

Handout on the PROPERTIES of materials

Handout on the STRUCTURE of materials

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