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  An interesting link to examples of five-fold symmetry, and the relation to the "Golden Mean" can be found [http://www.goldenmuseum.com/ here].
  An interesting link to examples of five-fold symmetry, and the relation to the "Golden Mean" can be found [http://www.goldenmuseum.com/ here].


The emergence of the Golden Mean in the [http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/Chaos_Course/Lesson19/Circle.pdf route to chaos of the "circle map"] can be found in detailed [http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/Chaos_Course/Outline.html lectures on chaos by Mike Cross] (Caltech).
The emergence of the Golden Mean in the [http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/Chaos_Course/Lesson19/Circle.pdf route to chaos of the "circle map"] can be found in detailed [http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/Chaos_Course/Outline.html lectures on chaos by Mike Cross] (Caltech).


==Liquid crystals==
==Liquid crystals==

Revision as of 14:46, 8 February 2009

Crystal lettices

"Habit" of crystals

Lattice, basis, unit cell

Primitive cell, Wigner-Seitz cell

Examples of crystal lattices

Miller indices

Quasi-crysals

An interesting link to examples of five-fold symmetry, and the relation to the "Golden Mean" can be found here.
The emergence of the Golden Mean in the route to chaos of the "circle map" can be found in detailed lectures on chaos by Mike Cross (Caltech).

Liquid crystals

Scattering methods

X-ray diffraction, Bragg' law

Neutron diffraction

Electron diffraction