Learning Goals

  •   What is crystallography?
  • Geometrical crystallography: indexing and zones
  • Crystals and symmetry
  • Crystal systems
  • Point groups
  • Physical consequences of symmetry and anisotropy
  • From the continuum to the discontinuum: The space lattice
  • The Coded Projection
  • Centering and the Bravais lattice types
  • The Voronoi Construction
  • Voids
  • Symmetry elements in the lattice
  • Space groups
  • The Hermann-Maugin Symbol
  • A page in the International Tables for Crystallography