3.022 Microstructural Evolution in Materials
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Prerequisite: 3.012 |
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Course Description: Applications of statistical mechanics, surfaces, diffusion in solids, nucleation, phase transformations, chemical reaction rates for elementary mechanisms, reaction rates in solids. |
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Lectures: MWF10 (37-212) |
Recitations: TR1 (13-1143) or TR2 (13-1143) |
Administration |
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Yoda
Patta |
Barbara Layne |
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MIT 12-011, x3-6877 |
MIT 12-005, x3-4046 |
MIT 12-012, x3-2185 |
ypatta@mit.edu |
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Office Hours: XXXX |
Office Hours: XXXX |
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Laboratory: MWF9-1 (8-107) |
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Prof. Harry Tuller |
Prof. Linn Hobbs |
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MIT 13-3126, x3-6890 |
MIT 13-4054 x3-6835 |
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tuller@mit.edu |
hobbs@mit.edu |
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Office Hours XXXX |
Office Hours: XXXX |
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Website
The course web site, located at http://web.mit.edu/3.022, will be used as the primary means of communicating information to the students. The web site is divided into the following sections:
· Administration -- contains this document highlighting information related to exams, problem sets, grading, etc.
· Syllabus -- lecture / exam schedule and topics to be covered
· Lecture Notes -- PDF versions of material presented in lecture
· Problem Sets -- weekly assignments and solutions to previously assigned problems
The web site will be updated frequently and students are therefore strongly encouraged to refer to it often. Hard copies of lecture notes, problem sets, and solutions will not be handed out in-class. These documents will be available only on the web and require the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Some sections of the web site (Lecture Notes, Problem Sets) are accessible from within MIT only or require authentication using web certificates.
Participation
Attendance at all scheduled lectures, labs, and recitations is expected. Students are encouraged to come prepared and ready to ask questions. The lecturer and recitation instructor will also be available during weekly office hours to answer questions on an informal basis.
Additional review sessions will be scheduled during the week preceding each exam. Review sessions will be designed to give students an extra opportunity to ask questions and work example problems. Attendance is at the discretion of the student.
Problem Sets
Assignments consisting of a few individual problems will be posted on the course web page on Saturday of each week, unless otherwise announced in class. It is expected that the students will prepare the material covered in the assignments for the following week's recitation. Alternating take-home assignments or brief (ten minute) quizzes will be given each week. Quizzes will be given at the end of the Thursday recitations. Each quiz will consist of a problem chosen at random from the previous week's problem set. Quizzes will be closed book and notes. Graded assignments and quizzes will be returned at the following recitation.
Extra time will not be given for completion of the weekly quizzes. Students will be expected to arrive on time in order to receive the full ten minutes.
There will be no quizzes during weeks when an exam is given. There will be either an assignment or a quiz in the last week of classes.
Exams
A one hour exam will be held during the semester. The scheduled date for this exam is March 18 during an evening special session. The recitation that day (Recitation 9) will not be an official recitation but will be used as time for you to ask questions in preparation for the exam. This exam will cover material through Lecture 14 on March 17th. A cumulative, three hour final exam will be held during finals week, the date of which will be released by the schedules office after the third week of the term.
Laboratory Reporting
Laboratory reports will consist of a laboratory based "problem set" due one week after completion of each laboratory exercise. The laboratory based "problem set" will be handed out no later than the end of the laboratory session. The construction of the laboratory report will be the work of each individual student.
Grades
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Exam 1 |
25% |
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Lab |
30% |
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Final |
35% |
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Recitation Quizzes/Assignments |
10% |
Academic Honesty
Discussion of course materials and weekly assignments and labs is encouraged, except, of course, during examinations and quizzes. Students are strongly recommended to work in groups to develop solutions to problems.