QUESTION BANK
Short Questions:
1. What is meant by crystallography?
2. Define unit cell and primitive cell.
3. What are Miller indices? How are they calculated?
4. What are the properties of X-rays?
5. What is the significance of Bragg’s Law?
6. Define the terms: Hysteresis loop, Hysteresis loss, Retentivity and coercivity.
7. Define electric susceptibility?
8. Give the properties diamagnetic materials
9. Give an example for each of a solenoidal and irrotational vector fields.
10. What is Moseley’s Law?
11. What is critical temperature and critical magnetic field.
12. Explain briefly current conduction in semiconductor.
13. Define Magnetic Anisotropy
Long Questions
1. Why X-rays are preferred for crystal structure determination? Derive an
expression for Bragg’s law. How Bragg’s law is used in crystallography?
2. Differentiate between metals, insulators and semiconductors.
3. What are continuous and characteristics X-rays? How are the continuous X-rays
spectrum and its short wavelength limit explained?
4. What do you mean by a semiconductor? Explain intrinsic and extrinsic
semiconductor.
5. Explain the principle, working, advantages and applications of LED.
6. Describe principle and working of Photodiode.
7. Discuss the classification of magnetic materials.
8. What are ferrites. Give its properties and applications too.
9. What is Meissner effect? Further explain the effect of magnetic field on the
superconducting state.
10. What do you mean by superconductivity? Differentiate between Type 1 and Type
2 superconductors?
11. Discuss London’s equations in superconductivity
12. Explain the significance of divergence of vector field.
13. Give its physical interpretation. gradient of a scalar function
14. Derive the differential form of Gauss law in electrostatics and magnetostatics
with its importance.
15. Write the four Maxwell equation in differential and integral form. Also give its
physical significance.