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Crystallography and the World of Symmetry [electronic resource] / by Sanat K. Chatterjee.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Springer Series in Materials Science ; 113Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008Description: XII, 152 p. 105 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783540698999
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 530.474 23
LOC classification:
  • QC173.45-173.458
Online resources:
Contents:
Pattern -- Lattices -- Symmetry in Lattices -- Crystal Symmetry (Crystal Pattern): I -- Crystal Symmetry (Crystal Pattern): II -- Crystals and X-Ray -- Experimental Methods for Structure Analysis: X-Ray Diffraction Techniques -- Determination of Space Group and Crystal Structure -- The World of Symmetry -- Asymmetry in Otherwise Symmetrical Matter.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Symmetry exists in realms from crystals to patterns, in external shapes of living or non-living objects, as well as in the fundamental particles and the physical laws that govern them. In fact, the search for this symmetry is the driving force for the discovery of many fundamental particles and the formulation of many physical laws. While one can not imagine a world which is absolutely symmetrical nor can one a world which is absolutely asymmetrical. These two aspects of nature are intermingled with each other inseparably. This is the basis of the existence of aperiodicity manifested in the liquid crystals and also quasi-crystals also discussed in Crystallography and the World of Symmetry.
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Pattern -- Lattices -- Symmetry in Lattices -- Crystal Symmetry (Crystal Pattern): I -- Crystal Symmetry (Crystal Pattern): II -- Crystals and X-Ray -- Experimental Methods for Structure Analysis: X-Ray Diffraction Techniques -- Determination of Space Group and Crystal Structure -- The World of Symmetry -- Asymmetry in Otherwise Symmetrical Matter.

Symmetry exists in realms from crystals to patterns, in external shapes of living or non-living objects, as well as in the fundamental particles and the physical laws that govern them. In fact, the search for this symmetry is the driving force for the discovery of many fundamental particles and the formulation of many physical laws. While one can not imagine a world which is absolutely symmetrical nor can one a world which is absolutely asymmetrical. These two aspects of nature are intermingled with each other inseparably. This is the basis of the existence of aperiodicity manifested in the liquid crystals and also quasi-crystals also discussed in Crystallography and the World of Symmetry.

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