Hi Citizens:

Try not to laugh.

I have an embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question:

Why is it that F" in this picture isn't required to be vertical (purely 
imaginary)?

http://www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/~sawaya/tutorials/Phasing/phase.gif

(Similarly in the Harker diagram of the intersection of phase circles, one sees 
this.)

I had a student ask me and I realized that there is this fundamental gap in my 
understanding.

Many thanks in advance.

-- Bill




William G. Scott
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
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University of California at Santa Cruz
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