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Visualizing Materials Science — Student Projects by Year

Subjects: Engineering · Mathematics · Science

Art: Georg Agricola, De re metallica - gold panning (125711726), 1556 · Public domain

About this course

Source: MIT OpenCourseWare RES.3-004 Visualizing Materials Science, Fall 2017, Prof. W. Craig Carter — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: this unit's sessions in MIT's listing order. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

Instructor
Prof. W. Craig Carter
Term
Fall 2017
Level
Undergraduate
What's inside
27 videos · 26 other files
Materials open
Videos here · files on MIT OCW

Materials by section

Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.

Creating Mathematica Functions to Determine Degree of Crystallinity from XRD Plots
Thin Film Rainbows
Real and Reciprocal Space in 2D and 3D
Finding the Perfect Diamond: Why It's Impossible
Nanoparticle-polymer Network
Visualizing the Energies of Screw Dislocations
Quantum Time Evolution Using the Split Operator Fourier Transform Algorithm
Tight Binding Model
Crystallography, a Visualisation Tool for CS, BCC, and FCC Bravais Lattice Structures
Potential Energy Surfaces
2D Brillouin Zones
A Visualisation of Crystallographic Point Groups
A Basic and Fun Introduction to Crystalline Structures
Heat Transfer in a Material
Mohr's Circles
The Fundamental Principles of Reflection and Refraction
An Introduction to Spintronics
Photoluminescence and a Case Study of Zinc Sulfide
Examination of Electrochemical Impedance
The Stress and Strain Induced by Dislocations
Exploration of Conductive Heat Transfer
Birefringence in Dispersive Media
Image Processing Using the Watershed Transformation
Investigation of the Role of Structure in Color of Biomaterials