EXERCISE CHAPTER 3 (PART 3) (SUBTOPIC 3.

4)
POINT
Specify point coordinates for all atom positions for a BCC unit cell. Try to do it by yourself
first and after that check it out with the answers in the lecture note.

z 6
● ●9

7 ● 8 ●

c
●
5
4 y
1● ●
x a
● ●3
2 b

Point Fractional length

X axis Y axis Z axis Point

coordinates

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MILLER INDICES OF DIRECTION & PLANES
QUESTION 4

a) A vector passes through a unit cell from [¾,0,¼] to the [½,1,0] coordinates.
Determine its direction indices.
(2 marks)

b) Indicate the indices for A and B directions as shown in the cell unit cubes in Figure 1.

Figure 1
(4 marks)

c) Determine the Miller indices for the A and B planes in Figure 2.

Figure 2

(4 marks)
QUESTION 3

a) Figure 1 shows a cubic unit cell with two locations of crystal coordinate labeled.
Name the coordinate of each point alloted.

Figure 1
(2 marks)

b) The cubic unit cell in Figure 2 has three indicated directions. Compute the Miller
indices for the directions given.

Figure 2

(5 marks)

c) Postulate the Miller indices to be if the indice directions in Figure 2 of the above turn
oppositely.
(3 marks)