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Assignment Crystallography

1. The document provides theoretical questions and numerical problems related to crystallography. It defines key terms like unit cell, lattice, and crystal structure. 2. It asks to compare properties of simple cubic, body centered cubic, and face centered cubic unit cells including atomic positions, coordination numbers, and packing efficiency. 3. Relations are given between lattice constant, density, and atomic radius for cubic crystals. The document also lists the number of crystal systems and Bravais lattices in three dimensions.

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Assignment Crystallography

1. The document provides theoretical questions and numerical problems related to crystallography. It defines key terms like unit cell, lattice, and crystal structure. 2. It asks to compare properties of simple cubic, body centered cubic, and face centered cubic unit cells including atomic positions, coordination numbers, and packing efficiency. 3. Relations are given between lattice constant, density, and atomic radius for cubic crystals. The document also lists the number of crystal systems and Bravais lattices in three dimensions.

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Assignments on crystallography

date: 10.11.2014
Theoritical Questions:
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Define the following terms: (i) space lattice (ii) basis (iii) crystal structure (iv) unit cell (v) primitive cell (vi) nonprimitive cell.
Explain how the combination of lattice with a basis forms the crystal structure?
What are Miller indices? Explain with examples. What are their utilities?
Sketch the Miller planes: (100), (010), (001), (110), (101), (011), (111).
Show that in a cubic crystal of side a, the inter-planar spacing between consecutive parallel planes of Miller indices
(hkl) is d hkl

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h k2 l2

Give comparative study of (i) atomic positions (ii) effective number of atoms in a unit cell (iii) co-ordination number
(iv) atomic radius in terms of lattice constant (v) packing fraction (vi) void space of SC, BCC, FCC crystal.
Derive a relation between lattice constant and density of the material of a cubic crystal.
How many crystal structures are there in 3-dimensions? Mention their lattice parameters.
Mention how many Bravais lattices are corresponding to each crystal system.

Numericals:
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A crystal has FCC structure and its atomic radius is 0.175 nm. What is the volume of the unit cell?

The molecular weight of KBr (FCC) is 119.01 gm-mole-1 and its density is 2.75 gm-cm-3. Calculate the lattice constant of
this crystal.
If the lattice constant for a BCC crystal is 3.57 A and the density of the material of the crystal is 8575 kg-m-3, find its atomic
mass.
A crystal plane cuts at 3a, 4b and 2c along the crystallographic axes. Find Miller indices.

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A crystal has lattice constants of 1 A, 2 A and 3 A. A plane (321) cuts an intercept of 1 A along x-axis. Find the intercepts
along other axes.

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