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Interpretation:
Packing efficiency of a simple cubic cell, body-centred cubic and face-centred cubic unit cells, have to be calculated.
Concept Introduction:
The major types of cubic unit cells are:
- Simple cubic unit cell.
- Face-centered cubic unit cell.
- Body-centered cubic unit cell.
Packing efficiency, is the percentage of the cell space occupied by the spheres in a cubic unit cell of any type. The atoms in the unit cells are considered as spheres.

Answer to Problem 12.121SP
The packing efficiency of a simple cubic unit cell is
The packing efficiency of a body-centred cubic unit cell is
The packing efficiency of a face-centered cubic unit cell is
Explanation of Solution
Calculating the packing efficiency for a simple cubic unit cell:
Edge length is
The relation between edge length and volume is
So the volume of the unit cell is
The number of atoms in the simple cubic unit cell is 1.
An atom is considered as sphere.
The volume of sphere is
So, the volume of atoms in the simple cubic unit cell can be expressed as:
Thus, the packing efficiency of a simple cubic unit cell is
Calculating the packing efficiency for a body-centered cubic unit cell:
Edge length is
The relation between edge length and volume is
So the volume of the unit cell is
The number of atoms in the body-centered cubic unit cell is 2.
An atom is considered as sphere.
The volume of sphere is
So, the volume of atoms in the body-centered cubic unit cell can be expressed as:
Thus, the packing efficiency of a body-centered cubic unit cell is
Calculating the packing efficiency for a face-centered cubic unit cell:
Edge length is
The relation between edge length and volume is
So the volume of the unit cell is
The number of atoms in the body-centered cubic unit cell is 4.
An atom is considered as sphere.
The volume of sphere is
So, the volume of atoms in the body-centered cubic unit cell can be expressed as:
Thus, the packing efficiency of a face-centered cubic unit cell is
Using figure 11.2 as reference, the packing efficiency for the different types of cubic unit cells was calculated.
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