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Crystal Structure Analysis

Overview

This course covers the following topics: X-ray diffraction: symmetry, space groups, geometry of diffraction, structure factors, phase problem, direct methods, Patterson methods, electron density maps, structure refinement, how to grow good crystals, powder methods, limits of X-ray diffraction methods, and structure data bases.

Skills you'll practise

ChemistryPhysicsScience & Math

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • The real MIT course: lecture notes, problem sets and exams, often with solutions.
  • Free, with no sign-up or deadlines.
  • Taught by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the strongest names in its field.
  • Completely free.
  • Self-paced: start any time.

Disadvantages

  • No certificate, no grading and no forum: you need to be self-driven.
  • Many courses are recordings of past semesters and some have notes only, no videos.
  • No certificate.

Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.

Free to learn

  • Free: All the materials are free to use, with no sign-up. MIT OpenCourseWare gives no certificate.

Taught by

  • Dr. Peter Mueller

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in Tier 1: world-leading universities and India's top institutes of our institution ranking (98/100). OpenCourseWare is the gold standard for free university material.

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