27-797 Bonding of Materials

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

The course is focused on the description of bonding in solids including three primary types of bonds metallic, ionic, and covalent and secondary interactions van der Waals. The goal is to provide qualitative understanding of the cohesive forces in different classes of materials and correlate the resulting energies with the shortrange arrangement of atoms.

Prerequisites: 33-234 or 33-225

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