Materials Science

1. When a solid has a crystalline A. compound at which a polymer under a

structure, the atoms arranged in a B. composite specified load shows a specified
repeating structure are called C. mixture amount of deflection?
____. D. matrix A. Curie temperature
A. lattice B. Specific heat
B. unit cell 12. What is the reference sheet for the C. heat distortion temperature D.
C. crystal elements that can be used to form thermal conductivity
D. domain engineering materials?
A. periodic table 20. What mechanical property of a
2. What type of bonding refers to the B. truth table material refers to the nominal
sharing of electrons? C. building blocks of materials stress at fracture in a tension test
A. covalent bonding D. structure of materials at constant load and constant
B. Van der Waals bonding temperature?
C. metallic bonding 13. What physical property of a A. creep strength
D. ionic bonding material that refers to the B. stress rapture strength
temperature at which C. compressive yield strength D.
3. What refers to the crystal ferromagnetic materials can no hardness
imperfection characterized by longer be magnetized by outside
regions of severe atomic misfit forces? 21. What mechanical property of a
where atoms are not properly A. melting point material refers to the resistance to
surrounded by neighbor atoms? B. thermal conductivity the plastic deformation?
A. discrsytallization C. thermal expansion A. rigidity
B. dislocation D. Curie point B. plasticity
C. slip step C. ductility
D. dispersion 14. What is the ratio of the velocity of D. hardness
light in a vacuum to its velocity in
4. What do you call metals reinforced another material? 22. What chemical property of a
by ceramics or other materials, A. refractive index material which refers to its ability
usually in fiber form? B. Poisson ratio to resist deterioration by chemical
A. metalloids C. density or electrochemical reactions with
B. matrix alloys D. Mach number environment?
C. metal lattices A. stereospecificity
D. metal matrix composites 15. What physical property of a B. corrosion resistance
material refers to the amount of C. conductivity
5. What is the usual valence of weight gain (%) experienced in a D. electrical resistance
nonmetallic elements? polymer after immersion in water
A. 5 for a specified length of time under 23. What is the ratio of the maximum
B. 6 a controlled environment? load in a tension test to the
C. 7 A. dielectric strength original cross-sectional area of the
D. all of the above B. electric resistivity test bar? A. tensile strength
C. water absorption B. yield strength
6. Metalloids have a valence of D. thermal conductivity C. shear strength
____. D. plexural strength
A. 3 16. What physical property of a
B. 4 material that refers to the ratio of 24. What is the ratio of stress to strain
C. 5 heat flow per unit time in a in a material loaded within its
D. 1 homogeneous material under elastic range?
steady-state conditions, per unit A. Poisson’s ratio
7. What is a combination of one or area, per unit temperature B. refractive index
more metals with a nonmetallic gradient in a direction C. modulus of elasticity
element? perpendicular to the area? D. percent elongation
A. metalloid A. thermal expansion 25. What is the measure of rigidity?
B. matrix composite B. thermal conductivity A. stiffness
C. inert C. heat distortion temperature B. hardness
D. ceramic D. water absorption C. strength
D. modulus of elasticity
8. What do you call an atom that has 17. What physical property of a
lost or gain an electron? material refers to the highest 26. What mechanical property of a
A. ion potential difference (voltage) that material which is a time-
B. cation an insulating material of given dependent permanent strain under
C. hole thickness can withstand for a stress?
D. neutron specified time without occurrence A. elongation
of electrical breakdown through its B. elasticity
9. Polymer comes from Greek words bulk? C. creep
“ploy” which means “many” and A. thermal expansion D. rupture
“meros” which means ____. B. conductivity
A. metal C. dielectric strength 27. Which of the following is a natural
B. material D. electric resistivity magnet?
C. part plastic A. steel
D. plastic 18. What physical property of a B. magnesia
material refers to the ratio of the C. lodestone
10. The engineering materials known amount of heat required to raise D. soft iron
as “plastics” are more commonly the temperature of a unit mass of
called ____. a substance 1 degree to the heat 28. Which of the following materials
A. polyvinyl chloride required to raise the same mass have permeability slightly less
B. polymers of water to 1 degree? than that of free space?
C. polyethylene A. specific heat A. paramagnetic materials
D. mers B. latent heat B. non-magnetic materials
C. heat of fusion C. ferromagnetic materials
11. What is a combination of two or D. heat of fission D. diamagnetic materials
more materials that has properties
that the components materials do 19. What physical property of a 29. Which materials have
not have by themselves? material refers to the temperature permeabilities slightly greater than
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that of free space?
A. paramagnetic materials
B. non-magnetic materials
C. ferromagnetic materials
D. diamagnetic materials

30. Which of the following materials

have very high permeabilities?
A. paramagnetic materials
B. non-magnetic materials
C. ferromagnetic materials
D. diamagnetic materials

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Answer Key
1. B
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. D
6. B
7. D
8. A
9. C
10. B
11. B
12. A
13. D
14. A
15. C
16. B
17. C
18. A
19. C
20. B
21. D
22. B
23. A
24. C
25. D
26. C
27. C
28. D
29. A
30. C