Symmetry in crystallography : understanding the international tables
Radaelli, Paolo GAuthor
International Union of Crystallography.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
A fresh approach to teaching crystallographic symmetry. Rather than being swamped by heavy algebraic notation, the reader is taken through a series of simple and beautiful examples from the visual arts, and taught how to analyse them employing the 'pictorial' diagrams used in the international tables of crystallography.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A fresh approach to teaching crystallographic symmetry. Rather than being swamped by heavy algebraic notation, the reader is taken through a series of simple and beautiful examples from the visual arts, and taught how to analyse them employing the 'pictorial' diagrams used in the international tables of crystallography.
Description based on print version record.
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Symmetry around a fixed point -- 2. Frieze patterns and frieze groups -- 3. Wallpaper (plane) groups -- 4. Coordinate systems in crystallography -- 5. The mathematical form of symmetry operators -- 6. Distances, angles and the real and reciprocal spaces -- 7. A phase transition in 2 dimensions -- 8. Point groups in 3D -- 9. The 14 3D Bravais lattices -- 10. 3D space group symmetry -- 11. Symmetry and reflection conditions in reciprocal space -- 12. The Wigner-Seitz constructions and the Brillouin zones.
Crystallography
Crystallography, Mathematical
Symmetry (Physics)
Chemical & Materials Engineering
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Materials Science