This book aims at enhancing the understanding of topics in
crystallography through solving numerical problems. Designed into nine
chapters on major topics in crystallography, the book deals with more
than 600 carefully selected solved examples, problems, and
multiple-choice questions. Unit cell composition, construction and
calculations, Miller indices, structure factor calculations, and X-ray
diffraction methods are some of the many useful topics discussed in this
book. Each chapter begins with a brief theoretical explanation of the
topic followed by solved numerical examples for further clarity on the
subject.
The topic "crystallography" is interdisciplinary in nature. Its
rudimentary knowledge, therefore, is essential to the beginners in
physics, chemistry, mathematics, molecular biology, geology, metallurgy,
and particularly materials science and mineralogy. This book also is of
immense value to senior undergraduate and graduate students of physics,
chemistry, and other basic sciences.
