Introduction to Materials

PHYS 430/603

Lecturer: Laszlo Takacs

UMBC Physics Bldg. Room 309
Tel.: (410) 455-2524
E-mail: takacs@umbc.edu

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An introduction to the properties of materials, including crystallography and texture, diffraction and microscopic techniques, plastic deformation of metals, defects in materials diffusion, equilibrium phase diagrams and order-disorder transformation. Prerequisites: PHYS 303 and 324 or consent of instructor.
The course is suitable for physics and engineering students, both senior undergraduate and graduate.

Last revised: August 24, 2007.