16B1NPH532 Material Science (2016)

Tutorial Sheet - 09
1) Study yourself Liquid crystal polymers and submit assignment in Tute class.
2) Explain polymerization. Distinguish between the following
a. Condensation polymerization and addition polymerization.
b. Thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers.
3) Find weight average molecular weight for polypropylene given its degree of
polymerization as 10,000.
4) The number average molecular weight of a polystyrene is 10 5 gm/mol .Find its number
average degree of polymerization.
5) Molecular weight data for a polypropylene (molecular weight of the monomer is 42)
material are tabulated here. Compute (i) number average molecular weight (ii) weight
average molecular weight (iii) number average degree of polymerization (iv) weight
average degree of polymerization.
Molecular weight range(g/mol) Number fraction (xi) Weight fraction (wi)
8000 - 16000 0.05 0.02
16000 - 24000 0.16 0.10
24000 - 32000 0.24 0.20
32000 40000 0.28 0.30
40000 - 48000 0.20 0.27
48000 - 56000 0.07 0.11
6) How much ethylene glycol (OH-CH2-CH2-OH) must be added to 20 Kg of adipic acid
(COOH- CH2- CH2- CH2- CH2-COOH)to produce a linear chain structure of polyester
according to condensation process. What is the mass of resulting polymer?
7) The density and associated percent crystallinity for two polyethylene materials are as
follows:
(gm/cm3) Crystallinity (%)
0.965 76.8
0.925 46.4
(a) Compute the densities of totally crystalline and totally amorphous polyethylene.
(b) Determine the percent crystallinity of a specimen having a density of 0.950 gm/cm3.
8) Compute the density of NaCl crystal using ANa = 22.99 gm/mol, Acl = 35.45 gm/mol; rNa
= 0.1 nm, rCl = 0.181 nm.
9) Define glass transition temperature. Explain the phase transition behavior from liquid to
glass, liquid to semi-crystalline and liquid to crystalline using appropriate diagram of
specific volume vs temperature plots.
10) The two equivalent mer units of ethylene are contained in a unit cell of totally
crystalline polyethylene polymer which has orthorhombic structure with lattice constant
0.741 nm, 0.494 nm and 0.255 nm. If the molecular weight of monomer of
polyethylene is 28.06 g/mol, compute the density of totally crystalline polymer.
11) Is it always possible for a polymer to follow hooks law? If not, then under what
condition, it deviates from Hooks law? Explain your answer usng stress - strain curve.
12) What should be the cation to anoin radius ratio (rC/rA)for octahedral structural stability.
What happens if this ratio changes. Is it possible to have structural transition on
changing this ratio?
13) The unit cell of BaTiO 3 compound is tetragonal at room temperature whose edge
lengths a (a = b) = 3.997 and c = 4.075. If molecular weight of Ba, ti and O are
137.33g/mol, 47.867g/m and 15.999. calculate the density of BaTiO3 compound.