[gmx-users] Electric potential over the membrane

[David]

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 11:23, Itamar Kass wrote:
>     I have periodic boundary, and the size of the box is 
> ~6.2*6.2*6.7.  Follow from your explain I understand I have to write E_z = 
> 1  15  0.0 the results potential will be 15mV/nm*6.7nm=~100mV?
except for a factor 1000, the unit is V/nm, so it should be 0.015

Take care however that you should calculate the potential over your
membrane, not the box, so again for a 3 nm membrane with 100 mV you'd
want to use

1 0.033 0.0


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David.
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