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										The cuboid correlation function1.nb									 | 
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							By C. Herrmann & W. Gille, 1999: This is a representation of the structure functions  , p(r) and A(l) of a cuboid with edges  by means of a Mathematica program. 
							
								- The complete expressions for 
 . Eight r-intervals are considered and simple checks are performed.
								 - An application of the 
 expression: Determination of the chord length distribution density A(l,a,b,c) of the cuboid.
								 - Plots of 
 , p(r,a,b,c) and A(l,a,b,c) in a special case: Fixed edges a=3, b=4, c=5 are considered.
							  
							
							
								 
							
							 
									1.Definitions of the expressions for  and simple checks.
							The  in the eight r-intervals are defined. 
							Display of all gama terms 
							All the  -terms are available in detail. Each term is restricted to a certain r-interval. Eight r-intervals are necessary. In these expressions no abbreviations are used. 
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							 
							A test is performed to check the definition
							The space diagonal L is the largest dimension of the cuboid.  holds. Analytically this can be shown by the following lines. Here, exclusively the expression gama7 is used. 
							Similarly, it can be shown, that  is a continuous function. All endpoints of the r-intervals, for example  , must be considered then. 
							  
							  
							  
							
							
							
							
									 
								
							 
									2. Determination of the chord length distribution density A(l,a,b,c) of the cuboid
							  
							All A-terms are restricted to certain r-intervals. Based on  , again, eight r-intervals are necessary. 
							  
							Now, the definition of A(l,a,b,c) in all possible l-intervals. 
							  
							This is a test of the normalization of the chord length distribution in a case a=1, b=2, c=3. The theoretical result is 1.0 
							  
							  
							  
							  
							  
							
							
							
										 
									
							 
									3. Plots of  , A(l,a,b,c) and p(r,a,b,c)
							First, the graphical representation of a cuboid is defined. 
							Next, a graphical combination of cuboid , correlation function and the chord length distribution density is constructed. 
							  
							  
							Fig. 1: The correlation function (c.f.) and the chord length distribution density (c.l.d.) of a cuboid The positions of the three spikes A, B, C in the chord length distribution clearly mark the edges a,b,c of the cuboid. 
							On the other hand, the maximum particle dimension  cannot be detected via A(l,a,b,c). 
							The correlation function is a continuous function in the whole r-interval  .  holds, if  . 
							Finally the distance distribtion densities of cuboid and sphere are compared. 
							  
							  
							Fig. 2: The p(r) function of a cuboid and of a sphere with the same maximum dimension L The length  cannot be detected exactly in such a plot. 
							In the case of a spherical particle, the L-estimation can be handled by differentiation of  . This method does not work in the cuboid case. Here, the L-estimation is relatively complicated. 
							This is a consequence of the corners of this geometric figure. 
							
							
						
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