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... symmetry group of the Bravais lattice is called the point group of the Bravais lattice . There turn out to be only ... symmetry operation of a cube is also a symmetry operation of a regular octahedron , and vice versa . Thus the cubic ...
... symmetry group of the Bravais lattice is called the point group of the Bravais lattice . There turn out to be only ... symmetry operation of a cube is also a symmetry operation of a regular octahedron , and vice versa . Thus the cubic ...
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... symmetry of the object one produces by stretching a cube along a body diagonal ( Figure 7.3f ) . The lattice made by so distorting any of the three cubic Bravais lattices is the rhombohedral ( or trigonal ) Bravais lattice . It is ...
... symmetry of the object one produces by stretching a cube along a body diagonal ( Figure 7.3f ) . The lattice made by so distorting any of the three cubic Bravais lattices is the rhombohedral ( or trigonal ) Bravais lattice . It is ...
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... symmetry of an object characterized by a particular crystal system continues to belong to that system until the symmetry has been reduced so far that all of the remaining symmetry operations of the object are also found in a less sym ...
... symmetry of an object characterized by a particular crystal system continues to belong to that system until the symmetry has been reduced so far that all of the remaining symmetry operations of the object are also found in a less sym ...
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The Drude Theory of Metals | 1 |
The Sommerfeld Theory of Metals | 29 |
Failures of the Free Electron Model | 57 |
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