PHYSICS 406 Rutgers

Homework Assignment #2 (due 2/9/09) Reading Physics 406 (i) Omar (O) Chapter 2 pp 34 - 66. (ii) Handout 3: \"Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings Using.Ellipsoids,\" by A. Donevet all Science (2004); please find this reading on the cou

Homework Assignment #1 (due 2/2/09) Physics 406 Reading (i) Omar (O) Chapter 1 pp 2 - 30. (ii) Hando~t 1: \"Impossible Crystals,\" by H.C. von Baeyer in Discover, February 1990. (iii) Handout 2: \"Quasicrystalline Materials,\" by A.I. Goldman et al. Am

(Take-Home) Quiz #1 (due 2/12/09 in class) Physics 406 Name 1. Please sketch a rectangular lattice with a2/al = 1. On this sketch please indicate a p~tir of neighboring planes of each type: (1,0), (2,3) and (1,2). (a) Derive Braggs law geometrical