Practice

• Lecture notes on symmetry
• Use Bilbao Crystallographic Server and point/space group tables referred here
• Create CH4.xyz and explore its symmetry (see templates here)
• Create Si.cif and explore its symmetry
• "Decode": D_2d, -42m, R-3m
• Create TiO2_anatase.cif
• Dipole moment of H2O, CH4, Li2O, LiOH, HOF

Reading

• Callister chapter 3
• Kittel chapter 1
• Ashcroft chapters 4,7
• Wikipedia for any concept remaining obscure
• Use International Tables for Crystallography Volume A as a handbook

Advanced level

• Any textbook from Symmetry section for point/space groups, their representaions, and applications in physics/chemistry