Overview
This concise book is for chemists, material scientists, and physicists who deal with description of crystalline matter and the determination of its structure, and would like to gain more understanding of the principles involved. The main purpose of the book is to introduce the reader to principles of crystallographic symmetry, to discuss some traditional, as well as modern, experimental techniques, to formulate the phase problem of crystallography, and present in some detail r s6methods for its indirect and direct solution which are indispensable for further work. The book also contains discussions of structure-factor statistics, of value for resolving space-group ambiguities, and atomic displacement parameters which form an inseparable part of the structure. A discussion of the refinement of structural parameters, conventional, constrained and restrained, concludes the book. Derivations are, as far as possible, self contained and wherever mathematical detail might disrupt the line of reasoning the reader is referred to one of four appendices present in the book. The book is of course valuable for students of crystallography at a graduate and upper undergraduate level. No previous course on crystallography is a prerequisite for graduates in the above fields.
Full Product Details
Author: Uri Shmueli (, Tel Aviv University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Volume: 9
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.509kg
ISBN: 9780199219667
ISBN 10: 0199219664
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 07 June 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
It will fill a valuable niche for those who would like more of the mathematical background than they will find in most textbooks such as the classic * Randy J. Read Crystallography Reviews * The real strength of this book lies in the way it condenses and modernizes the material of the classic texts. * Acta Crystallography *
It will fill a valuable niche for those who would like more of the mathematical background than they will find in most textbooks such as the classic Randy J. Read Crystallography Reviews
Author Information
Uri Shmueli Professor Emeritus School of Chemistry Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University 1966 - Present The Author's selected contributions to crystallography can be found in his short C.V. at the URL http://crystal.tau.ac.il/xtal/ushmueli/shmueli.html Editor of Volume B of International Tables for Crystallography, from 1983; appointed by the Excutive Committee of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). Ex officio member of the IUCr Commission on International Tables, from 1983. Ex officio member of the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature, from 1983.
