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 4770 (v.3) Physical Properties of Solids 102
 
	| Area: | Department of Applied Physics |  
	| Credits: | 12.5 |  
	| Contact Hours: | 2.0 |  |  |  
	| ** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. ** |  |  |  
	| Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |  |  |  
	| Syllabus: | Electrical properties - resistivity, conductivity, insulators, semiconductors, dielectrics, piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics. Thermal properties - heat capacity, absorption, transmission, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, thermal stress, thermal shock resistance. Optical properties - optical properties of metals and non-metals (emission, absorption, transmission, reflection, refraction and colour), applications of optical phenomena (luminescence, photoconductivity, lasers). Magnetic properties - diamagnetism, paramagnetism and ferromagnetism, antiferomagnetism, ferrimagnetism, influence of temperature on magnetic behaviour, domains, hysteresis loop, permeability, soft and hard magnets, magnetic storage, superconductivity. |  |  |  
	| ** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** |  |  |  
  | Field of Education: | 10301 Physics |     | Funding Cluster: | 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying |     | SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Not Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
 |     | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |  
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		| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Area External | Central External | Fully Online |  
		| 2005 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y |  |  |  |  |  
	
		| Area External
 | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research. |  
		| Central External
 | refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |  
		| Partially Online
 Internal
 | refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External |  
		| Fully Online
 | refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External |  |  
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