Exercises 5.2: Brillouin zone

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5.2.1 The graph shows the phonon dispersion curves for an fcc crystal for the three different symmetry directions; the curves for each direction have their own color.

A) Which color goes with which symmetry direction, and why?

B) What points on these graphs correspond to the L, X and K symmetry points of the Brillouin zone?