Calculating angle between crystallographic directions
I’m looking at the angle between crystallographic directions in tetragonal rutile. To do this, I calculate the angle between vectors, where the components are based on the a and c unit cell dimensions. After calculating, I find that the angle between [101] and [001] is approximately 56.3°. The same applies for [-101] and [001], though there could be a difference in orientation.
Refining angle calculation
Hmm, I realized that the vector has a negative x component, but the z-axis direction remains the same. The angle is still acute because the dot product is positive. I'll show the general calculation, and the final result should be about 56.3°, with one decimal place. To be precise, I’ll use Python.