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Past exam of the condensed matter physics course of the University of Oxford 2013 1 b Solution by
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Interpret the reported angles as total scattering angles . The photon energy givesCombining with the two index assignments yieldsThe slight difference is consistent with the rounded angular data, givingThe intensity estimate needs a stated convention. The geometric structure factors obey and , so equal atomic factors give a single-directed-reflection ratio . For a powder line, the powder diffraction multiplicities are eight for and twelve for . Hence a multiplicity-and-structure-factor estimate isif other angle-dependent factors are neglected.
A measured integrated powder intensity also contains the Lorentz-polarization factor, atomic form factor, thermal-motion factor and instrument/sample corrections. For example, in the common unpolarized symmetric powder geometry,Including this factor but still taking equal atomic factors gives , rather than . More generally,within that geometry, before other corrections. The actual form factors and measurement geometry are not supplied, so no unique precision experimental peak-height ratio follows. The values , and refer to distinct explicitly stated levels of approximation; a powder family must not be silently treated as one directed reflection.
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