# FCC reciprocal to BCC

## Homework Statement

The proof seems fairly straight forward, but after plugging in the primitive vectors to the equations for the reciprocal lattice vectors, I'm getting
$$2\pi\frac{\frac{a^2}{4}(x+y-z)}{\frac{a}{2}(y+z)\cdot(\frac{a^2}{4}(-x+y+z))}$$

One proof I checked said that the bottom line's
$$(y+z)\cdot(-x+y+z)=2$$

I don't see how. Any ideas?

## Answers and Replies

tiny-tim
Science Advisor
Homework Helper
Hi Piano man! If this is a dot product then x.y = y.z = z.x = 0. :facepalm:

thanks I completely forgot that.
So it would reduce to y.y + z.z = 2

A tad embarrassing not to spot that :D
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