1.

The energy required to remove an electron from Na atom is

(a) 5.1 ergs
(b) 5.1 Joules
(c) 5.1 eV
(d) 5.1 MeV

2. A covalently bonded crystal, among the following, is

(a) SiO
(b) NaCl
(c) KBr
(d) MgO

3. The potential energy of a diatom is negative, because

(a) work is done on the atoms
(b) kinetic energy is zero
(c) the charges are negative
(d) atoms do work

4. The crystal system, which exhibits all the four types of structures, is

(a) Hexagonal
(b) Tetragonal
(c) Cubic
(d) Orthorhombic

5. The condition for a crystal to be cubic is

6 90o
(a) a 6= b 6= c, α = β = γ =
(b) a = b = c; α = β = γ = 90o
(c) a 6= b = c; α = β 6= r
(d) a = b 6= c; α = β = 90o , γ = 120o
6. The total number of Bravais lattices possible in all seven crystal systems, is

(a) 4
(b) 7
(c) 3
(d) 14
7. The packing factor is defined as the ratio of

(a) the volume of the unit cell to the volume of all the atoms
(b) the number of all atoms in the unit cell to the volume of the unit cell
(c) the volume of all atoms in the unit cell to the volume of the unit cell
(d) the volume of the unit cell to the number of atoms
8. An example for simple cubie structure, is
(a) Zinc
(b) Sodium
(c) Aluminium
(d) Polonium
9. An example for BCC structure, is
(a) Sodium
(b) Aluminium
(c) Zinc
(d) Polonium
10. The number of atoms per unit cell in the case of FCC, is
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 1

11. An example for a crystal for which the number of atoms per unit cell is 8, is

(a) Diamond
(b) quartz
(c) CsCl
(d) NaCl

12. Coordination number is the

(a) Number of distant atoms in a unit cell

(b) Number of nearest neighbours in a unit cell
(c) Number of atoms per unit cell
(d) Number unit cells per unit volume

13. If ro is the equilibrium spacing, the potential energy (V) of NaCl molecule is given by the relation

(a) V = e2 /4πεo ro2

(b) V = −e/4πεo ro
(c) V = e/4πεo ro
(d) V = −e2 /4πεo ro

14. The lattice of CsCl is

(a) BCC lattice

(b) Interpenetration of two simple cubic lattices
(c) Interpenertration of two FCC lattices
(d) FCC lattice

15. The plane in a crystalline solid intercepts the crystal axes at (2a, b, c) then what are it’s Miller indices?

(a) (2 1 1)
(b) (1 2 2)
(c) (1 2 2)
(d) (2 1 2)

16. The body diagonal of a cubic cell is given as

(a) [1 1 3]
(b) [1 1 2]
(c) [1 1 0]
(d) [1 1 1]

17. The distance between a set of parallel planes of Miller Indices (1 1 1) is a tetragonal crystal having a=b=1.0 nm
and c=1.5nm, is
q
(a) 3/8 nm
√
(b) 1 3
q
(c) 8/3
√
(d) 3 nm

18. If the path difference between the X-rays reflectd by successive crystal planes is n λ where n=1,2,3 ............ then
the intensity of each diffracted ray is

(a) maximum
(b) negative
(c) zero
(d) minimum

19. The order of diffraction when X-rays of wavelength 1.08 A. U. diffracted at an angle 300 from the crystal planes of
spacing 3.24 A.U. is
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 1
(d) 4

20. Debye-Scherren method of X-ray diffraction is a

(a) Three-dimensional diffraction method

(b) Rotating crystal method
(c) Powder crystal method
(d) Laue method