Commission on Crystallographic Teaching

Teaching Pamphlets

New Series

A third series of the Teaching Pamphlets sponsored by the Commission on Crystallographic Teaching is now available for private study and individual use.

20. Crystals - A Handbook for School Teachers. Elizabeth A. Wood. This classic text is now available as a Web resource in several different language translations.
21. Crystal Packing. Angelo Gavezzotti and Howard Flack. Includes illustrations of the two-dimensional space groups
22. Matrices, Mappings and Crystallographic Symmetry. Hans Wondratschek

Series Preface

The long term aim of the Commission on Crystallographic Teaching in establishing this pamphlet programme is to produce a large collection of short statements each dealing with a specific topic at a specific level. The emphasis is on a particular teaching approach and there may well, in time, be pamphlets giving alternative teaching approaches to the same topic. It is not the function of the Commission to decide on the `best' approach but to make all available so that teachers can make their own selection. Similarly, in due course, we hope that the same topics will be covered at more than one level.

The first set of ten pamphlets, published in 1981, and this second set of nine represent a sample of the various levels and approaches and it is hoped that they will stimulate many more people to contribute to this scheme. It does not take very long to write a short pamphlet, but its value to someone teaching a topic for the first time can be very great.

Each pamphlet is prefaced by a statement of aims, level, necessary background, etc.

C. A. Taylor
Editor for the Commission

First Series (1981)

1. A non-mathematical introduction to X-ray diffraction. C. A. Taylor
2. An introduction to the scope, potential and applications of X-ray analysis. M. Laing
3. Introduction to the Calculation of Structure Factors. S. C. Wallwork
4. The Reciprocal Lattice. A. Authier
5. Close-packed structures. P. Krishna and D. Pandey
6. Pourquoi les groupes de Symétrie en Cristallographie. D. Weigel
7. Crystal structure analysis using the `superposition' - and `complementary' - structures. L. Höhne and L. Kutchabsky
8. Anomalous Dispersion of X-rays in Crystallography. S. Caticha-Ellis
9. Rotation Matrices and Translation Vectors in Crystallography. S. Hovmöller
10. Metric Tensor and Symmetry Operations in Crystallography. G. Rigault

Second Series

11. The Stereographic Projection. E. J. W. Whittaker
12. Projections of Cubic Crystals. Ian 0. Angell and Moreton Moore
13. Symmetry. L. S. Dent Glasser
14. Space Group Patterns. W. M. Meier
15. Elementary X-Ray Diffraction for Biologists. Jenny P. Glusker
16. The Study of Metals and Alloys by X-ray Powder Diffraction Methods. H. Lipson
17. An Introduction to Direct Methods. The Most Important Phase Relationships and their Application in Solving the Phase Problem. H. Schenk
18. An Introduction to Crystal Physics. Ervin Hartmann
19. Introduction to Neutron Powder Diffractometry. E. Arzi

Updated 30 September 2005

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