Past exam of the condensed matter physics course of the University of Oxford / 2017 / 1 / c

Use the angle between two planes defined as the acute angle between their normal vectors. The normals $(1,1,1)$ and $(-1,1,1)$ have dot product one and lengths $\sqrt{3}$. ThusChoosing an oriented rather than an acute interplanar angle could give the supplementary $109.4712^{\circ }$; it describes the same unoriented pair of lattice planes.

The $(100)$ normal vector is $(1,0,0)$. Its normalized dot product with $(1,1,1)$ is $1/\sqrt{3}$, soThis is the acute angle between the lattice planes, rather than the complementary angle between a plane and the other plane's normal.