1. Evaluate how Bragg’s X-ray crystallography experiment advanced our understanding of materials. Discuss how their discoveries enabled scientific discoveries that followed. Bragg’s experiment was conducted to observe how the crystal lattice structure of a crystal affects the diffraction of a beam and allows us to calculate the angle of diffraction. The experiment involved an X-ray tube shining a beam onto a crystal, allowing the beam to be diffracted, this beam is split into multiple X-ray beams onto a screen coated with photographic emulsion, creating a projection of sorts, allowing us to observe the crystal’s atom structure and X-ray spectra. During this experiment, the directions for when the waves are scattered they are a destructive …show more content…
Maglev trains can obtain a maximum speed of about 360 miles per hour. Another positive feature of maglev trains is that the cost of maintaining and running Maglev trains is much less compared to conventional trains. A large reason is that since Maglev trains are levitating over the guideways, wear and tear damage due to the wheels of conventional trains rubbing on the tracks does not apply to Maglev trains. With air travel, people still have to take into consideration the time they have to spend at the airports for security, boarding and luggage checking. All this will not be needed for traveling in Maglev trains and so the commute time will still be less. Maglev trains are extremely environmentally friendly as they have zero carbon emissions, since they run on electricity. Maglev trains also reduce noise pollution compared to regular trains. The mentioned above factors describe the positive aspects of the Maglev Trains and implementing a rail from Sydney and Melbourne would create easier transport and cheaper alternative to flying by plane or driving by car due to efficiency, speed and minimal amount of damage to be caused to the