513.001 Molecular and Solid State Physics

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MIT 8.231 Physics of Solids, 1.6

Show that the maximum proportion of the available volume which can be filled by hard spheres arranged on various lattices is : simple cubic, 0.52; body-centered cubic, 0.68; face-centered cubic, 0.74.