Thursday, March 17, 2011

The beauty of materials

I really like the "popular" book The Cambridge Guide to the Material World by Rodney Cotterill. It was out of print for a while but I was delighted to see that the published issued a new expanded edition in 2008. A scan of the chapter on Crystal structures and symmetry from the first edition here. I encourage my solid state physics students to read this as it has beautiful pictures and gives a nice non-mathematical introduction.
By at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

The disappointing story of superconductivity in Strontium Ruthenate

In 1994 superconductivity was discovered in strontium ruthenate (Sr2RuO4). This attracted considerable interest because it had a perovskite...

  • Nobel Prize predictions for 2025
     This week Nobel Prizes will be announced. I have not done predictions since 2020 . This is a fun exercise. It is also good to reflect on w...
  • What is Herzberg-Teller coupling?
    Is it something to do with breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation? In molecular spectroscopy you occasionally hear this term thro...
  • NF - mysteries of a small molecule
    Nitrogen fluoride (NF) seems like a very simple molecule and you would think it would very well understood, particularly as it is small enou...