And this is why Physics would benefit exponentially from the inclusion of visual learning tools, like this one, across every syllabus! Great little video!
I'm definitely a visual learner and this animation came out around the time that I was first learning about reciprocal space and it was extremely helpful. It is so much easier to explain/understand scientific concepts with the 3D visualisation/Animation/Graphic design technology that we have available to us these days!! I also love how well it demonstrates how connected the Sciences+Arts are/should be! :)
Animation significantly helped to understand the concept. Thank you so much. Sometimes we do not understand the effort put into this video and we take it for granted. You just did what thousand of hours spent on textbooks will do and probably less effective.
Thank you. 3rd year chemistry, always sorta struggled with difraction. This short video helped me understand it better than multiple lectures and chapters of Atkins ever did.
Holy EFFIN GAWD....so, you mean to tell me, that my TENURED professor couldn't mention HOW and WHAT the need for the reciprocal lattice. This is exactly what I thought was happening but he couldn't explicitly say it. GEEZUS FREAKING XRIST! I'm so sick of lousy professors that CAN'T TEACH WORTH $HIT! Even if he would have told us in words what this video shows, I wouldn't have been lost for half the chapter. Thank you for showing this to us. I thought I was on the right track until he opened his mouth and started jumping around Bravais Lattices and some other things without just explaining how simple of a concept this was. He made it seem that the translation vector and the reciprocal lattice vector measure the same thing. Clealry they're related but not the way he half-assed the explanation.
Good helpful video. one question though, when you atoms in between, then you are saying in reciprocal lattice position will not change but intensity will.. but adding atoms in between is equal to compressing existing atoms, then reciprocal lattice should spread out. So, Do you mean different kind of atoms added between ???
I asked teacher same question and he couldn't expalin well although he is professor of recognized university and phd holder and you did in a minute. ...WOW.
Good visualization, but this is just in a plane only, actual structure is not 2D. So if you deal 3D things and make a video you will have more like and views. Well, anyhow it was good. thanks.