Title: Horrible textbook
Product review: B. D. Cullity has authored or co-authored several textbooks on x-ray diffraction that are commonly used in college classes on diffraction. This version by Addison-Wesley which was first published in the late 1970's is probably the worst one. The text is very difficult to understand, equations are not fully explained, and many terms are used that can be quite unfamiliar to engineers and scientists without prior knowledge of reciprocal space and crystallography. The book attempts to explain the entire concept of diffraction using Bragg's law, without providing the more intuitive view of photons and electrons in the Brillouin Zone. As such, the conceptualization is tricky even though the math is not that difficult. I would not recommend buying, or even using this book, for learning or teaching about diffraction.
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