MSE 260: Phase Transformations Second Semester 2024/25
12 June 2025
Assignment Two
Due on 19 June 2025 latest 2:00 pm at PB 321 and on VClass
1. Refer to the phase diagram (Figure Q1) in answering the following:
a) What are the values for temperature and pressure at STP? T= _____ and P = _____?
b) What is the normal boiling point of this substance?
c) What is the normal freezing point of this substance?
d) What is the normal melting point of this substance?
e) What is the phase of a substance at 2.0 atm and 100 ℃?
f) What is the phase of a substance at 0.75 atm and 100 ℃?
g) What is the phase of a substance at 0.5 atm and 100 ℃?
h) What is the phase of a substance at 1.5 atm and 50 ℃?
i) What is the phase of a substance at 1.5 atm and 200 ℃?
j) What is the phase of a substance at 1.5 atm and 800 ℃?
k) What is the condition of the triple point of this substance?
l) If a quantity of this substance was at an initial pressure of 1.25 atm and a temperature of
300 ℃ was lowered to a pressure of 0.25 atm, what phase transition(s) would occur?
m) If a quantity of this substance was at an initial pressure of 1.25 atm and a temperature of
0 ℃ was lowered to a pressure of 0.25 atm, what phase transition(s) would occur?
n) If a quantity of this substance was at an initial pressure of 1.0 atm and a temperature of
200 ℃ was lowered to a pressure of -200 ℃, what phase transition(s) would occur?
o) If a quantity of this substance was at an initial pressure of 0.5 atm and a temperature of
200 ℃ was lowered to a pressure of -200 ℃, what phase transition(s) would occur?
p) If this substance was at a pressure of 0.75 atm, at what temperature would it melt?
q) If this substance was at a pressure of 0.75 atm, at what temperature would it boil?
r) At what temperature do the gas and liquid phases become indistinguishable from each
other?
s) At what pressure would it be possible to find this substance in the gas, liquid, and solid
phase?
t) If I had a quantity of this substance at a pressure of 1.00 atm and a temperature of -1000
C, what phase change(s) would occur if I increased the temperature to 6000 C? At what
temperature(s) would they occur?
u) If I had a quantity of this substance at a pressure of 2.00 atm and a temperature of -1500
C, what phase change(s) would occur if I decreased the pressure to 0.25 atm? At what
pressure(s) would they occur?
2. Draw a schematic phase diagram for a unary (one component) system that has three different
crystalline modifications in solid state.
(i) Label the areas and give the names of the boundary lines
(ii) Apply the phase rule principle to one of the triple points of the phase diagram and explain
the meaning of your result.
3. Using the unary phase diagram of Fe, sketch the cooling curve of Fe as it cools from 2000 ℃
to 500 ℃ at a constant pressure of 5 10-5 atm as shown by the vertical line in Figure Q3.
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MSE 260: Phase Transformations Second Semester 2024/25
12 June 2025
Figure Q1: Unary phase diagram
Figure Q3 Phase diagram of pure Fe
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