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WEC 120 Materials Science II

ND1 levelEngineering & Technology9 topics

WEC 120 covers 9 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Atomic movement and diffusion
  2. Vacancies and interstitial diffusion
  3. Diffusion coefficient
  4. Activation energy for diffusion
  5. Factors affecting diffusion coefficient
  6. Fick’s second law
  7. Calculations based on diffusion laws
  8. Thermal diffusivity
  9. Inter-diffusion

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Atomic movement and diffusion

Atomic movement and diffusion are the fundamental processes that govern mass transport in solids, liquids, and gases. Mastering diffusion mechanisms, the Arrhenius relationship, and the role of defects is essential for predicting microstructural evolution, alloy performance, and failure modes in engineering materials.

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