Dear Students,
a warm welcome to all of you!
Today we are starting our course with over 11,000 of you, who signed up for this Crystal MOOC already. We are excited to be your instructors for this class and look forward to our discussions. Please take a look at the course description below, share it with your friends, and tell them to sign up for free here:
The first chapter consists of the following units:
Unit 1.0 – Welcome
Unit 1.1 – Crystal and Structures – Powers of Ten
Unit 1.2a – Crystallographic Poetry
Unit 1.2b – Crystallographic Poetry – Systematization
Unit 1.3 – Definition of Crystals and Anisotropy
Unit 1.4 – The Correspondence Principle (I)
Unit 1.5 – The Correspondence Principle (II)
Unit 1.6 – The Formation of Snowflakes
Unit 1.7 – The Concept of the Unit Cell
Unit 1.8 – The 7 Crystal Systems
Unit 1.9 – Crystal = Lattice + Motif
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Best wishes!
Michael and Frank
The Fascination of Crystals and Symmetry 