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.