PROPERTIES OF MATTER#

Many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind – Lord Kelvin

Learning Objectives

In this unit, the student is exposed to

• inter atomic or intermolecular forces in matter
• stress, strain and elastic modulus
• surface tension
• viscosity
• properties of fluids and their applications