Overview

This brief teaching edition is a condensed, inexpensive version of Volume A of International Tables for Crystallography . It consists of: complete descriptions of the 17 plane groups, useful for the teaching of symmetry; 24 selected space-group examples, of varying complexity and distributed over all seven crystal systems; and, those basic text sections of Volume A that are necessary for the understanding and handling of space groups (Parts 1, 2, 3 and 5). The purpose of the teaching edition is threefold: It should provide a handy (and inexpensive) tool for researchers and students wishing to familiarize themselves with the use of the space-group tables in Volume A. It is designed for use in classroom teaching, and with this aim in mind the price has been kept as low as possible. In order to achieve this, the material has been reprinted from Volume A without any changes, except for pagination. It may serve as a laboratory handbook because the 24 examples include most of the frequently occurring space groups, for both organic and inorganic crystals. The fifth edition of the brief teaching edition has been reviewed by M. Warren [Mineral. Mag. (2003). 67, 826-827].

Full Product Details

Author:   Theo Hahn
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   5th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 30.30cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780792365914

ISBN 10:   0792365917
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

PART 1. SYMBOLS AND TERMS USED IN THIS VOLUME: Printed symbols for crystallographic items: Vectors, coefficients and coordinates. -Directions and planes.- Reciprocal space.- Functions.- Spaces.- Motions and matrices.- Groups.- Printed symbols for conventional centring types: Printed symbols for the conventional centring types of one-, two- and three-dimensional cells.- Notes on centred cells.- Printed symbols for symmetry elements: Printed symbols for symmetry elements and for the corresponding symmetry operations in one, two and three - dimensions.- Notes on symmetry elements and symmetry operations.- Graphical symbols for symmetry elements in one, two and three dimensions: Symmetry planes normal to the plane of projection (three dimensions) and symmetry lines in the plane of the figure (two dimensions).- Symmetry planes parallel to the plane of projection.- Symmetry planes inclined to the plane of projection (in cubic space groups of classes 43m and m3m only) - Notes graphical symbols of symmetry planes.- Symmetry axes normal to the plane of projection and symmetry points in the plane of the figure.- Symmetry axes parallel to the plane of projection.- Symmetry axes inclined to the plane of projection (in cubic space groups only).- References. PART 2: GUIDE TO THE USE OF THE SPACE-GROUP TABLES: Classification and coordinate systems of space groups: Introduction.- Space-group classification.- Conventional coordinate systems and cells.- Contents and arrangement of the tables: General layout.- Space groups with more than one description.- Headline.- International (Hermann--Mauguin) symbols for plane groups and space groups (cf. Chapter 12.2).- Patterson symmetry.- Space-group diagrams.- Origin.- Asymmetric unit.- Symmetry operations.- Generators.- Positions.- Oriented Site-Symmetry Symbols.- Reflection Conditions.- Symmetry of Special Projections.- Maximal Subgroups and Minimal Supergroups.- Monoclinic Space groups.- Crystallographic Groups in one dimension.- References. PART 3. DETERMINATION OF SPACE GROUP: Space-group determination and diffraction symbols: Introduction.- Laue class and cell.- Reflection conditions and diffraction symbol.- Deduction of possible space groups.- Diffraction symbols and possible space groups.- Space-group determination by additional methods.- References. PART 5. TRANSFORMATIONS IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: Transformations of the coordinate system (unit-cell transformations): Introduction.- Matrix notation.- General transformation.- Transformations of symmetry operations (motions): Transformations.- Invariants.- Example: low cristobalite and high cristobalite.- References. PART 6. THE 17 PLANE GROUPS (TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPACE GROUPS) PART 7. EXAMPLES FROM THE 230 SPACE GROUPS&n

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