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I think you may be slightly confused on the difference between a bravais lattice and a unit cell. A primitive bravais lattice is a lattice that has atoms only at the corners. You can look at this as having 1/4 of an atom at each corner, therefore only 1 total atom or you can view it as a single...

This is an interesting point but I am not seeing how it is relevant to the question posted about conservation of momentum?

Oh, in your previous comment was m mass or momentum? I assumed you meant it was momentum since we were using P for pressure already but I think this makes more sense if you did actually mean mass.

I think that makes sense, but why then is velocity squared?

I am trying to follow a derivation of the Rankine-Hugoniot equations in a paper by Peter Krehl titled: The classical Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions, an important cornerstone of modern shock wave physics: ideal assumptions vs. reality This paper talks about the RH equations which relate...

Hello all. I am currently in a PhD program in the Earth Sciences. I joined the forum to ask some questions I am stuck on but got sucked in to the interesting discussions in many of these threads. I hope to contribute what I can.

I am confused on how to use these translations to tell what type of unit cell I have. I know that this is not a face centered unit cell because you need 4 total atoms and I only have two. From what I understand, to apply a body centering translation you add or subtract it from the lattice point...