List of Figures

Overview

Figure 0.1.1: The stratification of physical world according to length scale and energy scale.
Figure 0.1.2: Different branches of physics coordinated according to their length scales.
Figure 0.3.1: Schematic diagram for the energy states of a typical many particle system, as an illustration of broken symmetry in condensed matter.

Figure 1.1.1: The Cartesian coordinate system ( x, y, z) and cylindrical coordinate system ( ?, ?, z).
Figure 1.1.2: The schematic diagram of handedness. (a) The left hand and the right hand; (b) the mirror reflection of a chiral molecule.
Figure 1.1.3: The mirror-reflected text of Jabberwocky and the restored text from a second mirror reflection.
Figure 1.1.4: The demonstration of equivalence of mirror rotation _? and inversion rotation N _? ( ? = ?- ?).
Figure 1.1.5: The demonstration of the kaleidoscope theorem.
Figure 1.1.6: The demonstration of the Euler theorem.
Figure 1.1.7: A NH ₃ molecule with its rotation axis and mirror planes.
Figure 1.1.8: The symmetry of circles. (a) With arrowhead; (b) without arrowhead.
Figure 1.2.1: The combination of the symmetry axes at different directions (emergences of symmetry axes at the sphere surface form a spherical triangle).
Figure 1.2.2: The schematic diagram of point groups (showing the special arrangement of symmetry elements by stereograms).
Figure 1.2.3: Five kinds of regular polyhedron.
Figure 1.2.4: The stereogram showing the relation of the axial (face) angles between the cube and icosahedron symmetry groups.

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