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Question : Identify the eight symmetry operations on a square. Show tha...

Identify the eight symmetry operations on a square. Show that they form a group {D}_{4} (known to crystallographers as 4mm and to chemists as {C}_{4v}) having one element of order 1, five of order 2 and two of order 4. Find its proper subgroups and the corresponding cosets.

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