ROLES Director: Calvin Tran Researcher: Johnston Nguyen Excecutor: Kristen Thorn Skeptic I: Catherine Chan Skeptic II:

Antoinette Kitch (Kesha) Director Calvin Tran Assignment 5: You made a new material that crystallizes (forms a regular lattice) and is promissing towards pharmaceutical purposes. In order to prove that the material has crystallized, you do x-ray diffraction. Using Cu radiation, you scatter light (x-ray) off your crystal and it produces a nice peak at 6.8 degrees. What is the crystalline spacing? Plan: Let try out the deadlines Kesha recommended! Althought these are deadlines, you certainly can/encouranged to post before the following deadlines. 1 day: director post 2 day: researcher post 3 day: executor post skeptics on all days Principle: Chapter 27 Interference and The Wave Nature of Light 27.9 X-Ray Diffraction Problem Based off of Chapter 27. Important equations found in 27.7 and 27.9. We can expect an answer somewhere in the 1*10^-10m range. Researcher Johnston Nguyen The diffraction pattern of crystalized material was measured with x-ray radiation. The use of Cu K_alpha radiation of wavelength of 1.54 x 10^-10 m scattered light off the crystal and produced a first order Bragg diffraction peak with an angle of 2 of 6.8. With Bragg's law , we solve for the spacing between the diffracting planes of the crystial, d.

= 6.8/2 = 3.4 m = first-order

 = 1.54 x 10^ -10 m Where m is integer of the order, is the wavelength of incident wave, d is the separation between the planes, and is the angle between the incident ray and scattering planes. Reference http://ruby.colorado.edu/~smyth/G30105.html Executor Kirsten Thorn Equation given = m=1

Plug it in

Skeptic I Catherine Chan Unit check: d=m/(2sin) = (no units) (m)/(no units)= m

 Skeptic II Antoinette Kitch

Found this on wiki "X-Ray Crystallography"

Notice it says that when there is constructive interference, the incoming beam is deflected at angle 2! So we were right, this given 2 theta does have to do with constructive interference. This means, in order to find d, we should still divide the given 2 theta by 2 to get the original angle of incidence to use in Bragg's ( ) m is the 1st order Section 27.9 says that most crystalline solids are spaced about 1.0E-10 m from one another, so should expect a similar number